Band-tunable color cone lasing emission based on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals with various pitches and a pitch gradient

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22616-22623

  Lee, C R ^a   Lin, S H ^a   Yeh, H C ^b   Ji, T D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

ANGULAR RANGE; DYE-DOPED; IMPORTANT FEATURES; LASING EMISSIONS; PITCH GRADIENT; REAL APPLICATIONS; TUNABLE COLOR;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

COLOR; COLORING AGENTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 72049117687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022616     Document Type: Article

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