Switchable random laser from dye-doped polymer dispersed liquid crystal waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 407-410

  Xiao, Shumin ^a   Song, Qinghai ^a   Wang, Feng ^b   Liu, Liying ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^a   Xu, Lei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical scattering; Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (pdlc); Random laser; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

COLLIMATED LASER BEAMS; DYE-DOPED POLYMER; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; LASING MODES; OPTICAL SCATTERING; OPTICALLY PUMPED; PDLC FILMS; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; SWITCHABLE; ULTRAHIGH-Q;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 59249096745     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.893013     Document Type: Article

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