Low-threshold and high efficiency lasing upon band-edge excitation in a cholesteric liquid crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Matsuhisa, Yuko ^a   Huang, Yuhua ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a   Ozaki, Ryotaro ^b   Takao, Yuuki ^c   Fujii, Akihiko ^c   Ozaki, Masanori ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EXCITATION ENERGY; LIGHT REFLECTION;

DENSITY OF STATE (DOS); HELICAL STRUCTURE; HIGH EFFICIENCY LASING; REFLECTION BANDS;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 33847687193     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2710777     Document Type: Article

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