Photochromic compounds as optical limiters in the nanosecond time range: The example of mercury dithizonate complex

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-202

  Feneyrou, Patrick ^a   Soyer, Françoise ^a   Barny, Pierre Le ^a   Ishow, Elena ^b   Sliwa, Michel ^b   Delaire, Jacques A ^b  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MERCURY DITHIZONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; ISOMER; LASER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 11344287315     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b210944c     Document Type: Article

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