Lasing thresholds of cholesteric liquid crystals lasers

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 429, Issue , 2005, Pages 101-110

  Cao, W ^a   Palffy Muhoray, P ^a   Taheri, B ^a   Marino, A ^b   Abbate, G ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystal; Density of states; Lasing threshold; Mirrorless lasing; Photonic band gap

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; DENSITY OF STATES; LASING THRESHOLD; MIRRORLESS LASING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644745255     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400590930782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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