Organo-erbium systems for optical amplification at telecommunications wavelengths

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 382-386

  Ye, H Q ^a   Li, Z ^a,b   Peng, Y ^a,b   Wang, C C ^c   Li, T Y ^c   Zheng, Y X ^c   Sapelkin, A ^a   Adamopoulos, G ^d   Hernandez I ^e   Wyatt, P B ^b   Gillin, W P ^a,f  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^f SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PUMPING; INTEGRATED OPTICS TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER MATERIALS; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); POPULATION INVERSIONS; SILICON PHOTONICS;

AMPLIFICATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONICS;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 84897861074     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3910     Document Type: Article

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