Polymer laser based on active waveguide grating structures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6487-6492

  Zhai, Tianrui ^a   Zhang, Xinping ^a   Pang, Zhaoguang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ORGANIC LASERS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; DFB LASER; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GAIN MEDIUM; GRATING STRUCTURES; HIGH QUALITY; INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; LASER EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING POLYMER; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; POLYMER LASERS; THIADIAZOLES; WAVEGUIDE LAYERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79953209019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006487     Document Type: Article

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