Femtosecond time-resolved saturation dynamics of BDN-doped polycarbonate

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1850-1855

  Lenner, Miklós ^a   Spielmann, Christian ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); GROUND STATE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

OPTICAL PUMP-PROBE MEASUREMENTS; PUMP FLUENCE; SATURATION DYNAMICS;

POLYCARBONATES;

EID: 33644757819     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001850     Document Type: Article

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