Organic semiconductor distributed feedback (DFB) laser as excitation source in Raman spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 28941-28947

  Liu, Xin ^a   Stefanou, Panagiotis ^a   Wang, Bohui ^a   Woggon, Thomas ^a,b   Mappes, Timo ^a,c   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VISOLAS GmbH   (Germany)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCAPSULATION METHODS; EXCITATION SOURCES; FILTER CONFIGURATION; LASER LINE-WIDTH; LASER OUTPUT POWER; POWER STABILITY; SMALL MOLECULES; SPECTRALLY TUNABLE;

HELIUM NEON LASERS; LASER EXCITATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84888268494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.028941     Document Type: Article

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