Single step optical fabrication of a DFB laser device in fluorescent azobenzene-containing materials

Adv Mater. 2012 Jul 3;24(25):3339-43. doi: 10.1002/adma.201200698. Epub 2012 May 31.

Abstract

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are produced directly in fluorescent azobenzene-containing materials using a single holographic optical step. Surface relief grating capable of producing images in fluorescence microscopy can be holographically formed in a number of materials.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Azo Compounds / chemistry*
  • Holography / instrumentation
  • Holography / methods
  • Lasers*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence

Substances

  • Azo Compounds
  • azobenzene