Flexible mirrorless laser based on a free-standing film of photopolymerized cholesteric liquid crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 3741-3743

  Matsui, Tatsunosuke ^a   Ozaki, Ryotaro ^a   Funamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a   Yoshino, Katsumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; LASER THEORY; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037064983     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1522498     Document Type: Article

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