Micro-fabricated single mode polymer dye laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2170-2177

  Balslev, Søren ^a   Mironov, Andrej ^a   Nilsson, Daniel ^a   Kristensen, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DYE DOPED POLYMER; FEED-BACK POLYMER DYE LASER; MULTIMODE STRUCTURE;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 33645050681     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002170     Document Type: Article

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