Defect-mode lasing with lowered threshold in a three-layered hetero-cholesteric liquid-crystal structure

Advanced Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-197

  Song, Myoung Hoon ^a   Ha, Na Young ^b   Amemiya, Kazuhiro ^a   Park, Byoungchoo ^c   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Wu, Jeong Weon ^b   Nishimura, Suzushi ^d   Toyooka, Takehiro ^d   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^d JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYES; PHOTONS; RESONANCE;

CAVITY STRUCTURE; DEFECT-MODE LASING; HELIX;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 31144432117     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200501438     Document Type: Article

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