Optical gain by a simple photoisomerization process

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 490-497

  Gallego Gómez, Francisco ^a,c   Del Monte, Francisco ^b   Meerholz, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL GAIN COEFFICIENTS; ORGANIC HOLOGRAPHIC MATERIALS; PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE HOLOGRAPHIC MEDIA; POYNTING VECTOR; WRITING EFFICIENCY;

OPTICAL GAIN;

EID: 44349101984     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2186     Document Type: Article

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