Optically end-pumped plastic waveguide laser with in-line Fabry-Pérot resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 24092-24100

  Yamashita, Kenichi ^a   Ito, Masahiro ^a   Sugimoto, Shuhei ^a   Morishita, Takashi ^a   Oe, Kunishige ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FEEDBACK; MIRRORS; ORGANIC LASERS; PUMPS; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; EMISSION BANDS; END-PUMPED; END-PUMPING; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; FIBER PORTS; IN-LINE; LASING ACTION; LASING THRESHOLD; ORGANIC DYE MOLECULES; PLASTIC WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING LIGHT; PUMPING METHODS; REFLECTION BANDS; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE; WAVEGUIDE TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 78149451425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024092     Document Type: Article

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