Position sensitive, continuous wavelength tunable laser based on photopolymerizable cholesteric liquid crystals with an in-plane helix alignment

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a   Inoue, Yo ^a   Isomura, Takuya ^a   Matsuhisa, Yuko ^a   Fujii, Akihiko ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; PLASTIC FILMS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS; EXTERNAL VOLTAGES; FREE-STANDING FILMS; IN PLANES; ISOTROPIC PHASE; MOLECULAR ORDERINGS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE MATERIALS; PLANE DIRECTIONS; POSITION SENSITIVES; PUMP BEAMS; TUNING RANGES; VERTICAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LASERS; WEDGE CELLS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 62149148022     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3089846     Document Type: Article

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