Emission characteristics of a homologous series of bimesogenic liquid-crystal lasers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ford, A D ^a   Morris, S M ^a   Pivnenko, M N ^a   Gillespie, C ^a   Coles, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OLEFINS; PHOTOEXCITATION;

BIMESOGENIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL LASERS; HOMOLOGOUS SERIES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 36048940031     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051703     Document Type: Article

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