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This study describes the laser generation of a 6Zh rhodamine in artificial opals representing single-crystal and heterostructure films. The spectral and angular properties of emission and the threshold characteristics of generation are investigated. In the case where the 6Zh rhodamine was in a bulk opal, the so-called random laser generation was observed. In contrast to this, the laser generation caused by a distributed feedback inside the structure of the photonic bandgap was observed in photonic-crystal opal films.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kuchyanov, A.I. Plekhanov, 2016, published in Avtometriya, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 96–102.
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Kuchyanov, A.S., Plekhanov, A.I. Laser generation in opal-like single-crystal and heterostructure photonic crystals. Optoelectron.Instrument.Proc. 52, 609–615 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S8756699016060121
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