Circularly polarized high-efficiency cholesteric liquid crystal lasers with a tunable nematic phase retarder

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5021-5027

  Shirvani Mahdavi, Hamidreza ^a,b   Mohajerani, Ezeddin ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID LASERS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL LASER; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE-DOPED; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INNER SURFACES; LASER EFFICIENCY; LASER EMISSION; LASER OUTPUT; MIRROR REFLECTOR; NEMATIC PHASE; PHASE RETARDERS; POLARIZATION STATE; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; STATE OF POLARIZATION;

MIRRORS;

EID: 77749279864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005021     Document Type: Article

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