Lasing with well-defined cavity modes in dye-infiltrated silica inverse opals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2976-2978

  Nishijima, Yoshiaki ^a   Ueno, Kosei ^a   Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Mizeikis, Vygantas ^a   Fujiwara, Hideki ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIES; DYES; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOL-GELS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DYE SOLUTIONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; GAIN MODULATION; LASING SPECTRUM; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; SILICA INVERSE OPALS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FLUORESCENT DYE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

FLUORESCENT DYES; LASERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 60549105396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002976     Document Type: Article

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