Distributed feedback micro-laser array: Helixed liquid crystals embedded in holographically sculptured polymeric microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2695-2705

  Barna, Valentin ^a   Caputo, Roberto ^a   De Luca, Antonio ^a   Scaramuzza, Nicola ^a   Strangi, Giuseppe ^a   Versace, Carlo ^a   Umeton, Cesare ^a   Bartolino, Roberto ^a   Price, Gabriel Noam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; MOLECULES; POLYMERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK MICRO-LASER ARRAY; EMISSION INTENSITY; FLUORESCENT GUEST MOLECULES; HELIXED LIQUID CRYSTALS; HOLOGRAPHICALLY SCULPTURED POLYMERIC MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL MICROCAVITY; POLYMERIC MICROCHANNELS; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 33645506162     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002695     Document Type: Article

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