Highly photo-stable dye doped solid-state distributed-feedback (DFB) channeled waveguide lasers by a pen-drawing technique

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22080-22089

  Yang, Yu ^a   Goto, Ryo ^a   Omi, Soichiro ^a   Yamashita, Kenchi ^b   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^a   Miyazaki, Masaya ^b   Oki, Yuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LASER PULSES; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; POLYMERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); SILICONES; SOLID STATE LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DYE-DOPED SOLIDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VISCOSITIES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POLYMER COMPOSITION; PYRROMETHENE 567; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

COLORING AGENT; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; POLYMER; PORPHOBILINOGEN; PYRROMETHENE 567; SILICONE DERIVATIVE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; VISCOSITY;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; PORPHOBILINOGEN; SILICONES; TIN COMPOUNDS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 78149247051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022080     Document Type: Article

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