Color cone lasing emission in a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal with a single pitch

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12910-12921

  Lee, C R ^a   Lin, S H ^a   Yeh, H C ^a   Ji, T D ^a   Lin, K L ^a   Mo, T S ^b   Kuo, C T ^c   Lo, K Y ^d   Chang, S H ^a   Fuh, Andy Y G ^a   Huang, S Y ^e  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; LASING EMISSIONS; LASING WAVELENGTH; LONG WAVELENGTH; MATRIX METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; REFLECTION BANDS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CHOLESTEROL; GLASS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 67749084426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012910     Document Type: Article

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