Travelling-wave lasing in neat films of arylene-vinylene polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4087, Issue , 2004, Pages 635-644

  Penzkofer, Alfons ^a   Holzer, Wolfgang ^a   Schmitt, T ^a   Hartmann, A ^b,c   Bader, Cornelia ^b,c   Tillmann, Hartwig ^b,c   Raabe, Dietrich ^b,c   Hoerhold, Hans Heinrich ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b INOVENT Technologieentwicklung e V   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission; Arylene vinylene polymers; Luminescent polymers; Travelling wave lasing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; LUMINESCENT POLYMER; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; SPECTRAL NARROWING; THRESHOLD BEHAVIOR; TRAVELLING-WAVE LASING; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SUBSTRATES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84875454211     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.406463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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