Electrically controllable liquid crystal random lasers below the Fréedericksz transition threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2391-2400

  Lee, Chia Rong ^a   Lin, Jia De ^a   Huang, Bo Yuang ^a   Lin, Shih Hung ^a   Mo, Ting Shan ^b   Huang, Shuan Yu ^c,d   Kuo, Chie Tong ^e   Yeh, Hui Chen ^f  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

APPLIED VOLTAGES; DIELECTRIC TENSORS; DIFFUSION CONSTANT; DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; RANDOM LASERS; SCATTERING STRENGTH; SPATIAL FLUCTUATION; WORKING VOLTAGE;

LIQUID LASERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79851482999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002391     Document Type: Article

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