Circularly polarized unidirectional lasing from a cholesteric liquid crystal layer on a 1-D photonic crystal substrate

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12323-12331

  Park, Byoungchoo ^a   Kim, Mina ^a   Kim, Sun Woong ^a,b   Kim, In Tae ^a  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

1-D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASERS; HIGH ENERGY BANDS; LASING EMISSIONS; LASING THRESHOLD; LEFT HANDED; REFLECTING MIRRORS;

LASER MIRRORS;

CHOLESTEROL; COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CHOLESTEROL; COLORING AGENTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 67749084419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012323     Document Type: Article

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