Melt-processed all-polymer distributed Bragg reflector laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10358-10363

  Singer, Kenneth D ^a   Kazmierczak, Tomasz ^b   Lott, Joseph ^b   Song, Hyunmin ^b   Wu, Yeheng ^a   Andrews, James ^c   Baer, Eric ^b   Hiltner, Anne ^b   Weder, Christoph ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG REFLECTORS; COEXTRUSION; COMPRESSION MOLDING; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; EXTRUSION; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; ORGANIC LASERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PUMPING (LASER); REFLECTION; RESONATORS; STYRENE;

CO-EXTRUSION PROCESS; END-PUMPED LASERS; LASING WAVELENGTH; ORGANIC LASER DYES; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); PROCESSING METHOD; ROLL TO ROLL MANUFACTURING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

DBR LASERS;

COLORING AGENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSDUCER;

COLORING AGENTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 47249166076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010358     Document Type: Article

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