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Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Paper

Hoinka, Nicolai Morten
Fuhrmann-Lieker, Thomas

Industrially produced copy paper is presented as a novel optical material for narrow-band stimulated emission. Fluorescent brightening agents (FBA) such as Calcofluor White provide enough gain to exceed the threshold for amplified spontaneous emission. By applying an additional dye such as Coumarin 307, or simply a highlighter pen, the emission line can be shifted from blue (~440 nm), towards turquoise (>480 nm), up to orange (590 nm) which can be useful for spectroscopic applications. These properties are demonstrated in two papers, a commercial copy paper and a FBA-stained calligraphy paper.

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Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Citation
In: Scentific Reports 2019 / 9 (2019-02-12) , S. 1862; ISSN: 2045-2322
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@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-20190520485,
  author    ={Hoinka, Nicolai Morten and Fuhrmann-Lieker, Thomas},
  title    ={Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Paper},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  journal  ={Scentific Reports},
  year   ={2019-02-12}
}