Organic semiconductor optical amplifiers

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1637-1650

  Amarasinghe, Dimali ^a   Ruseckas, Arvydas ^a   Turnbull, Graham A ^a   Samuel, Ifor D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; High gain; Optical amplifier; Organic amplifier; Semiconductor amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DIODE AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

HIGH GAIN; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 69449090807     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2023250     Document Type: Article

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