Study of solvent effect in laser emission from Coumarin 540 dye solution

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4786-4792

  Nedumpara, Ritty J ^a   Thomas, K J ^a   Jayasree, V K ^a   Girijavallabhan, C P ^a   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; QUANTUM YIELD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

EMISSION SPECTRA; QUARTZ CUVETTE; SOLVENT EFFECT;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 34548550800     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004786     Document Type: Article

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