Multilevel rate-equation analysis to explain the recent observations of limitations to optical limiting dyes

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3546-3552

  Hughes, Steve ^a   Wherrett, Brian ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 8644246588     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3546     Document Type: Article

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