Photoerasable and photorewritable spatiallytunable laser based on a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal with a photoisomerizable chiral dopant

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9496-9503

  Lin, Shih Hung ^a   Shyu, Cang Yi ^a   Liu, Jui Hsiang ^a   Yang, Po Chih ^b   Mo, Ting Shan ^c   Huang, Shuan Yu ^d   Lee, Chia Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS;

CHIRAL DOPANT; DYE-DOPED; LASING WAVELENGTH; PITCH GRADIENT; TUNABILITIES; TUNABLE LASERS; UV ILLUMINATIONS; UV IRRADIATION; WIDE-BAND;

ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

EID: 77952031210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009496     Document Type: Article

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