Liquid-crystal electric tuning of a photonic crystal laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 360-362

  Maune, Brett ^a   Lončar, Marko ^a   Witzens, Jeremy ^a   Hochberg, Michael ^a   Baehr Jones, Thomas ^a   Psaltis, Demetri ^a   Scherer, Axel ^a   Qiu, Yueming ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM TIN OXIDES (ITO); LIQUID CRYSTAL (LC) TUNING; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTATICS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INFILTRATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TUNING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 4043128067     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1772869     Document Type: Article

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