All-polymer organic semiconductor laser chips: Parallel fabrication and encapsulation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24881-24887

  Vannahme, Christoph ^a   Klinkhammer, Sönke ^a   Christiansen, Mads Brøkner ^b   Kolew, Alexander ^a   Kristensen, Anders ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Mappes, Timo ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ESTERS; FABRICATION; LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; OLEFINS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPED POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AT-WAVELENGTH; CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMERS; DICYANOMETHYLENE; DIRECT CONTACT; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GRATING PERIODS; LASER DYES; MASS PRODUCTION; OPERATIONAL LIFETIME; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; POLYMER CHIPS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL NANOIMPRINT; TRIS(8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE) ALUMINUM; TUNABLE VISIBLE LASERS; WAFER SCALE;

ORGANIC LASERS;

EID: 78649711782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024881     Document Type: Article

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