Tuning whispering gallery mode lasing from self-assembled polymer droplets

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ta, Van Duong ^a   Chen, Rui ^a   Sun, Han Dong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHODAMINES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875169564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01362     Document Type: Article

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