Observation of optical gain in solutions of CdS quantum dots at room temperature in the blue region

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 26, 2006, Pages

  Darugar, Qusai ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL GAIN DYNAMICS; PUMP FLUENCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33745617195     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2217138     Document Type: Article

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