Lasing from dye-doped icosahedral quasicrystals in dichromate gelatin emulsions

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7275-7284

  Kok, Mang Hin ^a   Lu, Weixin ^a   Tam, Wing Yim ^a   Wong, George K L ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUASICRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; CONVENTIONAL LASERS; DICHROMATE GELATINS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; ICOSAHEDRAL QUASICRYSTALS; ICOSAHEDRAL SYMMETRY; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

LASER MIRRORS;

COLORING AGENT; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; GELATIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMULSION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COLORING AGENTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMULSIONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GELATIN; LASERS; LIGHTING; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66549102840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007275     Document Type: Article

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