All-optically controllable random laser based on a dye-doped liquid crystal added with a photoisomerizable dye

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25896-25905

  Lee, Chia Rong ^a   Lin, Jia De ^a   Huang, Bo Yuang ^a   Mo, Ting Shan ^b   Huang, Shuan Yu ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DIELECTRIC TENSORS; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; OPTICALLY CONTROLLED; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; SCATTERING PROCESS; SCATTERING STRENGTH; SPATIAL FLUCTUATION; TRANSPORT MEAN FREE PATH; UV- AND;

LASER BEAMS;

COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ISOMERISM; LASER; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COLORING AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ISOMERISM; LASERS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 78650066320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025896     Document Type: Article

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