Blue surface-emitting distributed feedback lasers based on TPD-doped films

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 463-470

  Calzado, Eva M ^a   Villalvilla, Jose M ^a   Boj, Pedro G ^a   Quintana, Jose A ^a   Postigo, Pablo A ^b   DÍaz GarcÍa, María A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DIPHENYLBENZIDINE; HOLE TRANSPORTING; LASER PERFORMANCE; LASER THRESHOLD; ORGANIC MOLECULES; POLYSTYRENE FILMS; SURFACE EMITTING;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 76749101915     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000463     Document Type: Article

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