Organic semiconductor distributed feedback laser as excitation source in Raman spectroscopy using free-beam and fibre coupling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9137, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Xin ^a   Lebedkin, Sergei ^a   Mappes, Timo ^a,b   Köber, Sebastian ^a   Koos, Christian ^a   Kappes, Manfred ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

distributed feedback laser; organic semiconductor laser; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ORGANIC LASERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EXCITATION SOURCES; FILTER CONFIGURATION; HIGH SLOPE EFFICIENCY; RAMAN MICROSCOPE; SPECTRALLY TUNABLE; SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATION; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; TRIS(8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE) ALUMINUM;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84902322033     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2051645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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