Fluidic fibre dye lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3962-3967

  Vasdekis, A E ^a   Town, G E ^b   Turnbull, G A ^a   Samuel, I D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY TUBES; FIBER LASERS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIRRORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

FLUIDIC FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL WAVELENGTH SELECTIVITY MECHANISM; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; VERNIER RESONANT EFFECT;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 34147141352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003962     Document Type: Article

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