Low threshold laser emissions from dye-doped polymer films in photonic crystal cavity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7774, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shi, Lan Ting ^a,b   Jin, Feng ^a   Chen, Wei Qiang ^a   Zhao, Zhen Sheng ^a   Duan, Xuan Ming ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Active materials; Dye concentration; Dye doped film; Lasing emission; Photonic crystals; Resonator cavity; Rhoamine b; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE-DOPED FILM; LASING EMISSIONS; RESONATOR CAVITY; RHOAMINE B; THRESHOLD;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LASER MODES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERIC FILMS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; RESONATORS; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 77957975048     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.859997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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