Low-threshold lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 1707-1709

  Kopp, V I ^a   Fan, B ^b   Vithana, H K M ^b   Genack, A Z ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Reveo Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BAND EDGE; INDEX MODULATION; LOW THRESHOLD LASING; PHOTONIC STOP BAND;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032209616     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.001707     Document Type: Article

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