Amplified spontaneous emission and optical gain measurements from pyrromethene 567 - Doped polymer waveguides and quasi-waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7023-7036

  Costela, A ^a   Garcia O ^b   Cerdan L ^a   Garcia Moreno I ^a   Sastre, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL GAIN; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

DOPED POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; PYRROMETHENE 567; QUASI-WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT EMISSION;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER; PORPHOBILINOGEN; PYRROMETHENE 567; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PORPHOBILINOGEN; QUARTZ; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 43849105246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007023     Document Type: Article

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