Nanoimprinted polymer lasers with threshold below 100 W/cm2 using mixed-order distributed feedback resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14362-14367

  Wang, Yue ^a   Tsiminis, Georgios ^a   Kanibolotsky, Alexander L ^b   Skabara, Peter J ^b   Samuel, Ifor D W ^a,b   Turnbull, Graham A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; ORGANIC LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RESONATORS; FIRST-ORDER; HYBRID LASERS; INGAN LED; POLYMER LASERS; PULSED OPERATION; SECOND-ORDER GRATING; UV NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY;

PUMPING (LASER);

POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LASER; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; TRANSDUCER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDBACK; LASERS; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84879403397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014362     Document Type: Article

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