Blue-light-emitting polymer lasers with non-periodic circular Bragg resonators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6999, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wellinger, Thomas ^a   Pflumm, Christof ^b   Becker, Jing ^c   Weimann, Thomas ^c   Campoy Quiles, Mariano ^a   Stavrinou, Paul N ^a   Scherf, Ulrich ^d   Bradley, Donal D C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azimuthal polarization; Blue emission; Circular grating; Polyfluorene; Polymer laser

Indexed keywords

CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; LASER RESONATORS; LASERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; PUMPING (LASER); RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

(140.3500) LASERS; BLUE LIGHT-EMITTING; BLUE-EMITTING; BRAGG RESONATORS; CIRCULAR GRATINGS; FEATURE SIZES; GAIN MEDIUM; LASING THRESHOLDS; OPTICALLY PUMPED; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; POLARIZED BEAMS; POLYFLUORENE (PF); POLYMER LASERS; RESONATOR STRUCTURES; SINGLE MODES; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTHS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 45749135510     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.781033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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