Single-mode laser tuning from cholesteric elastomers using a "notch" band-gap configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 575-581

  Serra, Francesca ^a   Matranga, Mario Ariosto ^b   Ji, Yan ^a   Terentjev, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID LASERS; LIQUIDS; MIRRORS; PLASTICS; RUBBER;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; BAND GAPS; CHOLESTERIC ELASTOMERS; IN-BETWEEN; ISOTROPIC LAYERS; LASER DYES; MECHANICAL TUNING; RESONANT CAVITY; SINGLE MODE LASING; SINGLE-MODE LASERS; THREE-LAYER; TRANSMISSION BAND; TUNABLE LASERS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOMERISM; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ISOMERISM; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 75349092292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000575     Document Type: Article

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