Band-gap-tailored random laser

Hongbo Lu; Jian Xing; Cheng Wei; Jiangying Xia; Junqing Sha; Yunsheng Ding; Guobing Zhang; Kang Xie; Longzhen Qiu; Zhijia Hu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000390

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 5, 390(2018)

Band-gap-tailored random laser

Hongbo Lu^1,2, Jian Xing¹, Cheng Wei¹, Jiangying Xia³, Junqing Sha¹, Yunsheng Ding², Guobing Zhang^1,2, Kang Xie³, Longzhen Qiu^1,2, and Zhijia Hu^1,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Special Display Technology, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Laboratory of Special Display Technology, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Display Technology, Academy of Opto-Electronic Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

²Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Devices of Anhui Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

³School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

⁴Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Dec. 28, 2017

Accepted: Feb. 12, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

The Author Email: Zhijia Hu (zhijiahu@hfut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000390

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