Continuous wave mirrorless lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals with a pitch gradient across the cell gap

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2904-2906

  Munoz A ^a   Mcconney, M E ^b   Kosa, T ^a   Luchette, P ^a   Sukhomlinova, L ^a   White, T J ^b   Bunning, T J ^b   Taheri, B ^a  

^a Alpha Micron Inc   (United States)

^b WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL GAPS; CELL THICKNESS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASING; CW LIGHT; DYE-DOPED; LOCAL MINIMUMS; LOW POWER; PHOTONIC BAND-GAP STRUCTURES; PITCH GRADIENT; POLYMER STABILIZED; SPECTRAL REFLECTIVITY; STOPBAND;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER EXCITATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOTONICS; PUMPING (LASER);

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84864358051     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.002904     Document Type: Article

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