Mechanically tunable optofluidic distributed feedback dye laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10494-10499

  Li, Zhenyu ^a   Zhang, Zhaoyu ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a   Psaltis, Demetri ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; FEEDBACK DYE LASER; LASER ARRAYS; MECHANICAL TUNING;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 33750714414     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010494     Document Type: Article

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