Optical cavity with a double-layered cholesteric liquid crystal mirror and its prospective application to solid state laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Jeong, Soon Moon ^a   Sonoyama, Koji ^a   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a   Nishimura, Suzushi ^b   Suzaki, Goro ^b   Song, Myoung Hoon ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; SILVER; SOLID STATE LASERS; THIN FILMS;

MOLECULAR FILMS; OPTICAL CAVITY; SINGLE-MODE LASING;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33845790145     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2404937     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. E. Yablonovitch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059 (1987).
2. S. John, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2486 (1987).
3. J. P. Dowling, M. Scalora, M. J. Bloemer, and C. M. Bowden, J. Appl. Phys. 75, 1896 (1994).
4. V. I. Kopp, B. Fan, H. K. M. Vithana, and A. Z. Genack, Opt. Lett. 23, 1707 (1998).
5. A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and B. Taheri, Opt. Lett. 26, 804 (2001).
6. K.-C. Shin, F. Araoka, B. Park, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, Z. Zhu, T. M. Swager, and H. Takezoe, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1 43, 632 (2004).
7. F. Araoka, K.-C. Shin, Y. Takanishi, Z. Zhu, T. M. Swager, K. Ishikawa, and H. Takezoe, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 279 (2003).
8. J. Schmidtke, W. Stille, H. Finkelmann, and S. T. Kim, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 14, 746 (2002).
9. H. Finkelmann, S. T. Kim, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and B. Taheri, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 13, 1069 (2002).
10. T. Matsui, R. Ozaki, K. Funamoto, M. Ozaki, and K. Yoshino, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3741 (2002).
11. Y. Matsuhisa, R. Ozaki, M. Ozaki, and K. Yoshino, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 44, L629 (2005).
12. M. H. Song, N. Y. Ha, K. Amemiya, B. Park, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, J. W. Wu, S. Nishimura, T. Toyooka, and H. Takezoe, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 18, 193 (2006).
13. M. Grell, M. Oda, K. S. Whitehead, A. Asimakis, D. Neher, and D. D. C. Bradley, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 13, 577 (2001).
14. V. Vaenkatesan, R. T. Wegh, J. Teunissen, J. Lub, C. W. M. Bastiaansen, and D. J. Broer, Adv. Funct. Mater. 15, 138 (2005).
15. S. M. Jeong, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, and H. Takezoe, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 45, L737 (2006).
16. K. Amemiya, M. H. Song, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, S. Nishimura, T. Toyooka, and H. Takezoe, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1 44, 7966 (2005).
17. K. Amemiya, T. Nagata, M. H. Song, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, S. Nishimura, T. Toyooka, and H. Takezoe, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1 44, 3748 (2005).
18. Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, A. Rapaport, M. Bass, and S.-T. Wu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 231107 (2005).
19. V. G. Kozlov, V. Bulovic, P. E. Burrows, M. Baldo, V. B. Khalfin, G. Parthasarathy, and S. R. Forrest, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 4096 (1998).
20. V. Bulovic, V. G. Kozolov, V. B. Khalfin, and S. R. Forrest, Science 279, 553 (1998).
21. A. Dodabalapur, M. Berggren, R. E. Slusher, Z. Bao, A. Timko, P. Schiortino, El. Laskowski, H. E. Katz, and O. Nalamasu, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 4, 67 (1998).
22. M. D. Mcgehee, M. A. DiazGarcia, F. Hide, R. Gupta, E. K. Miller, D. Moses, and A. J. Heeger, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 1536 (1998).
23. N. Tessler, G. J. Denton, and R. H. Friend, Nature (London) 382, 695 (1996).
24. M. A. Diaz-Garcia, F. Hide, B. J. Schwartz, M. D. McGehee, M. R. Andersson, and A. J. Heeger, Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 3191 (1997).
25. M. D. McGehee and A. J. Heeger, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 12, 1655 (2000).
26. V. G. Kozlov and S. R. Forrest, Curr. Opin. Solid State Mater. Sci. 4, 203 (1999).
27. N. Tessler, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 11, 363 (1999).
28. J. Schmidtke, S. Kniesel, and H. Finkelmann, Macromolecules 38, 1357 (2005).