Liquid crystal as laser medium with tunable gain spectra

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6625-6630

  Blinov, L M ^a,b   Cipparrone, G ^a   Lazarev, V V ^b   Pagliusi, P ^a   Rugiero, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT MICRO-AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL AXIS; WAVEGUIDING GEOMETRY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 43049110264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006625     Document Type: Article

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