Electrically tunable lasers made from electro-optically active photonics band gap materials

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7243-7249

  Yu, Haiping ^a   Tang, Benjamin Y ^a   Li, Jianhui ^a   Li, Le ^a  

^a Kent Optronics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; THIN FILMS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (CLC); ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE LASER; PHOTONICS BAND GAP (PBG); RESONANT FREQUENCY;

LASERS;

EID: 24944520526     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007243     Document Type: Article

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