Efficient organic distributed feedback lasers with imprinted active films

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22443-22454

  Ramirez, Manuel G ^a   Boj, Pedro G ^a   Navarro Fuster, Victor ^a   Vragovic, Igor ^a   Villalvilla, José M ^a   Alonso, Ibon ^b   Trabadelo, Vera ^b,c   Merino, Santos ^b   Díaz García, María A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Micro and Nano Manufacture Unit   (Spain)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PUMPING; ORGANIC LASERS; POLYSTYRENES;

ACTIVE MATERIAL; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; GRATING QUALITY; HALF LIVES; HEAT EXPOSURE; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; LASER PERFORMANCE; MODULATION DEPTH; PERYLENEDIIMIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOTO-STABILITY; POLYSTYRENE FILMS; PREPARATION METHOD; PUMP PULSE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MODE EMISSION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 80755180992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022443     Document Type: Article

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