Strongly confined, low-threshold laser modes in organic semiconductor microgoblets

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 10009-10016

  Grossmann, Tobias ^a   Klinkhammer, Sõnke ^a   Hauser, Mario ^a   Floess, Dominik ^a   Beck, Torsten ^a   Vannahme, Christoph ^a   Mappes, Timo ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Kalt, Heinz ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FABRICATED DEVICE; FILLING FACTOR; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH-Q CAVITY; LASER EMISSION; LASING THRESHOLD; LOW-THRESHOLD LASERS; OPTICAL MODES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; RED SHIFT; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

ORGANIC LASERS;

EID: 79955846329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010009     Document Type: Article

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