Lasing in dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals: Two new tuning strategies

Advanced Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 791-795

  Chanishvili, Andro ^b   Chilaya, Guram ^b   Petriashvili, Gia ^b   Barberi, Riccardo ^a   Bartolino, Roberto ^a   Cipparrone, Gabriella ^a   Mazzulla, Alfredo ^a   Oriol, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS   (Georgia)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DYE LASERS; ELASTOMERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; HELICAL WAVEGUIDES; LASER TUNING; POLYMERS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK LASER GENERATION; NETWORK POLYMERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP; PHOTOTRANSFORMATION;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 2942579414     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200306542     Document Type: Article

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