Large-area organic distributed feedback laser fabricated by nanoreplica molding and horizontal dipping

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12980-12991

  Ge, Chun ^a   Lu, Meng ^b   Jian, Xun ^a   Tan, Yafang ^a   Cunningham, Brian T ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SRU Biosystems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MOLDING; ORGANIC LASERS;

ACTIVE AREA; ACTIVE POLYMERS; COMBINED TECHNIQUES; DENSE ARRAYS; DFB LASER; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; GRATING PERIODS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; REPLICA-MOLDING PROCESS; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVEGUIDE LAYERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 77953602854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012980     Document Type: Article

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