Tunable distributed feedback lasing with a threshold in the nanojoule range in an organic guest-host polymeric waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5748-5751

  Tsutsumi, Naoto ^a   Fujihara, Arata ^a   Hayashi, Daisuke ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HOLOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

FIRST-ORDER LASING; HOLOGRAPHIC DYNAMIC GRATINGS; LASER EMISSION; TUNABLE DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASING;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 33749853641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005748     Document Type: Article

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