All-optically controllable distributed feedback laser in a dye-doped holographic polymerdispersed liquid crystal grating with a photoisomerizable dye

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2613-2620

  Tong, Huai Pei ^a   Li, Yu Ren ^a   Lin, Jia De ^a   Lee, Chia Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; HOLOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; ISOTHERMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COUPLING STRENGTHS; HOLOGRAPHIC POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL; INDEX MODULATION; IRRADIATION INTENSITY; IRRADIATION TIME; LASING EMISSIONS; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 76149094512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002613     Document Type: Article

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