Supercontinuum assisted trapped electron accumulation in titanium oxide gel by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5782-5788

  Kuznetsov, A I ^a   Kanaev, A ^b   Bityurin, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRAPS; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

FOCUSED BEAMS; PHOTON INTERBAND TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34247882106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005782     Document Type: Article

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