Ultrafast random laser emission in a dye-doped silica gel powder

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12251-12263

  García Revilla, Sara ^a   Fernández, Joaquín ^a,b   Illarramendi, Maria Asunción ^a   García Ramiro, Begoña ^a   Balda, Roundes ^a,b   Cui, Hongtao ^c   Zayat, Marcos ^c   Levy, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SILICA GEL;

EMISSION DYNAMICS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; PROPAGATION MODELING; RANDOM LASER EMISSION; RANDOM LASING; REAL-TIME SPECTROSCOPY; RHODAMINE 6G; SOLID-STATE MATERIALS;

SILICA;

NANOPARTICLE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE 6G; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEL; LASER; POWDER; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GELS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; POWDERS; RHODAMINES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 49149092514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012251     Document Type: Article

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