Liquid-crystal-based tunable high-Q directional random laser from a planar random microcavity

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-375

  Song, Qinghai ^a   Xiao, Shumin ^a   Zhou, Xinchuan ^a   Liu, Liying ^a   Xu, Lei ^a   Wu, Yonggang ^b   Wang, Zhanshan ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER EMISSION; PLANAR RANDOM CAVITY LASER; PLANAR RANDOM MICROCAVITY; ULTRANARROW LINEWIDTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; LIGHT EMISSION; MICROCAVITIES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 33847621229     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000373     Document Type: Article

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