Photo-tuning of lasing from a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals by photoisomerization of a sugar derivative having plural azobenzene groups

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Kurihara, Seiji ^a   Hatae, Yohko ^a   Yoshioka, Teppei ^a   Moritsugu, Masaki ^a   Ogata, Tomonari ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ISOMERIZATION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TUNING;

HELICAL PITCH; LASER EMISSION WAVELENGTH;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644905282     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2172294     Document Type: Article

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