Lasing from InGaP quantum dots in a spin-coated flexible microcavity

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19535-19540

  Menon, V M ^a,b   Luberto, M ^a   Valappil, N V ^a   Chatterjee, S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; HYBRID MATERIALS; LASER MIRRORS; MICROCAVITIES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; ORGANIC LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HYBRID LASERS; INORGANIC MATERIALS; MICROCAVITY LASER; OPTICALLY PUMPED; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; POLYMER LAYERS;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 56749169426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019535     Document Type: Article

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