Tuesday, July 16, 2013

1307.3636 (A-S. Gadallah et al.)

Stimulated emission from ZnO thin films with high optical gain and low
loss
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A-S. Gadallah, K. Nomenyo, C. Couteau, D. J. Rogers, G. Lérondel
Stimulated surface- and edge-emission were investigated for ZnO thin films grown epitaxially by pulsed laser deposition. The lasing threshold was 0.32 MW/cm2 for surface pumping and 0.5 MW/cm2 for edge pumping, which is significantly lower than thresholds observed previously. A modified variable stripe length method was used to measure the gain, which was 1369 cm-1 for N-band emission. Losses were measured using the shifting excitation spot method and values of 6.2 cm-1 and 6.3 cm-1 were found for the N-band and P-band, respectively. The measured gain and loss were the highest and lowest (respectively) ever reported for ZnO films.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3636

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