Reversible switching of quantum cascade laser-modes using a pH-responsive polymeric cladding as transducer

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8557-8569

  Basnar, Bernhard ^a   Schartner, Stephan ^a   Austerer, Maximilian ^a   Andrews, Aaron Maxwell ^a   Roch, Thomas ^b   Schrenk, Werner ^a   Strasser, Gottfried ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ALKALINITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AIR WAVEGUIDES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; MULTI-COLORS; PH-RESPONSIVE; POLYACRYLIC ACIDS; POLYMERIC CLADDING; REVERSIBLE SWITCHING;

POLYMERS;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; CARBOPOL 940; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; PH; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ACRYLIC RESINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 45249101071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008557     Document Type: Article

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