Photonic Sensors, Volume. 10, Issue 3, 254(2020)

Coherent Random Lasing Realized in Polymer Vesicles

Yaxin LI1, Kang XIE1, Xiaojuan ZHANG2, Zhijia HU1,2,3,4, Jiajun MA3, Xianxian CHEN1, Junxi ZHANG1, Zhenming LIU5, and Dong CHEN1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Laboratory of Optical Fibers and Micro-nano Photonics, School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronicsEngineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 2Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology,Mianyang 621000, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
  • 5Department of Hepatobiliary and Vascular Surgery, Huangshan People’s Hospital, Huangshan 245000, China
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    Category: Regular

    Received: Sep. 1, 2019

    Accepted: Oct. 30, 2019

    Published Online: Dec. 23, 2020

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    DOI:10.1007/s13320-019-0577-2

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