Experimental realization of monolithic diffractive broad-area polymeric waveguide dye lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 545-551

  Büttner, Alexander ^a   Zeitner, Uwe D ^b  

^a VISTEC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Laser resonators; Polymeric dye lasers; Waveguide lasers

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODES; LASER RESONATORS; PHASE STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

GAUSSIAN-LIKE FUNDAMENTAL MODE; POLYMERIC WAVEGUIDE DYE LASERS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 34250705754     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.899471     Document Type: Article

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