Fabrication of a distributed-feedback dye laser with a grating structure in its plastic waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5030-5035

  Oki, Yuji ^a   Yoshiura, Takeshi ^a   Chisaki, Yuichi ^a   Maeda, Mitsuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NEODYMIUM LASERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASTIC DYE LASERS;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 0037143920     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005030     Document Type: Article

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