Low-threshold two-photon pumped ZnO nanowire lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 7893-7900

  Zhang, Chunfeng ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Xia, Tian ^a   Kumar, Nitin ^a   Hahm, Jong In ^a   Liu, Jin ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^b   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; NANOWIRES; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZINC OXIDE;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE EXCITATION; LOW THRESHOLDS; LOW-THRESHOLD LASING; NANOWIRE WAVEGUIDES; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; ROOM TEMPERATURE LASING; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS;

EID: 66449121610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007893     Document Type: Article

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