Organic micro-lasers: A new avenue onto wave chaos physics

Practical Applications of Microresonators in Optics and Photonics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-353

  Lebental, Melanie ^a,b   Bogomolny, Eugene ^b   Zyss, Joseph ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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