Organic semiconductor distributed feedback lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6008, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kowalsky, W ^a   Rabe, T ^a   Schneider, D ^a   Johannes, H H ^a   Karnutsch, C ^b   Gerken, M ^b   Lemmer, U ^b   Wang, J ^c   Weimann, T ^c   Hinze, P ^c   Riedl, T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback laser; Laser threshold; Organic light emitting diode; Organic solid state laser

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DYE LASERS; LITHOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER; LASER THRESHOLD; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; ORGANIC SOLID STATE LASER;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 33644677723     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.637436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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