Low-refractive-index dye-aggregate films with small absorption based on anomalous dispersion

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 906-911

  Wakamatsu, Takashi ^a   Watanabe, Keita ^a   Saito, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a IBARAKI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DYES; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; MONOMERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIPOLE MOMENTS; FILM DEPOSITION; METAL FILMS; SQUARYLIUM (SQ) DYE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 14844286182     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000906     Document Type: Article

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