All-optically controllable random laser based on a dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystal with nano-sized droplets

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2406-2412

  Lee, C R ^a   Lin, S H ^a   Guo, C H ^a   Chang, S H ^a   Mo, T S ^b   Chu, S C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; IRRADIATION; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ALL-OPTICAL; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; DYE-DOPED POLYMER; IRRADIATION TIME; NANO-SIZED; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; SCATTERING STRENGTH; TRANSPORT MEAN FREE PATH;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 76149096495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002406     Document Type: Article

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