Electrically tunable waveguide laser based on ferroelectric liquid crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4026-4028

  Kasano, Masahiro ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a   Yoshino, Katsumi ^a   Ganzke, Dirk ^b   Haase, Wolfgang ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SUBSTRATES;

FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 0037829753     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1580992     Document Type: Article

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