Side illumination fluorescence emission characteristics from a dye doped polymer optical fiber under two-photon excitation

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1913-1921

  Sheeba, M ^a   Rajesh, M ^b   Mathew, S ^a   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Vallabhan, C P G ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 51649100039     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001913     Document Type: Article

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