Nanostructuring of organic-inorganic hybrid materials for distributed feedback laser resonators by two-photon polymerization

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2500-2507

  Woggon, Thomas ^a   Kleiner, Thomas ^a   Punke, Martin ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOTONS; PHOTORESISTS; POLYMERIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

HEIGHT MODULATION; LOW THRESHOLDS; NANO-STRUCTURING; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS; SUBSTRATE TILTS; SURFACE GRATING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION;

HYBRID MATERIALS;

INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LASER; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549106514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002500     Document Type: Article

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