Enhancement of pump efficiency of a visible wavelength organic distributed feedback laser by resonant optical pumping

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5086-5092

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

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b SRU Biosystems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FEEDBACK; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT; ORGANIC LASERS; PUMPS;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; EXCITATION LIGHT; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INCIDENT ANGLES; LASER CAVITY; LASER PUMPS; LASING EMISSIONS; NEAR-FIELD; PUMP ABSORPTION; PUMP EFFICIENCY; PUMPING LIGHT; RESONANT MODE; SECOND ORDERS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79952602595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005086     Document Type: Article

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