Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4642, Issue , 2002, Pages 55-61

  Cao, W ^a   Finkelmann, H ^b   Kim, S T ^c   Munoz, A ^d   Palffy Muhoray, P ^a   Taheri, B ^a   Twieg, R ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LG Cable Research Center   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Cholesteric; Laser; Liquid crystal; Photonic

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELASTOMERS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BAND GAP; EIGENMODES; LASER EMISSION; MIRRORLESS LASING; PERIODIC STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0036030766     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.470459     Document Type: Article

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