Random lasing in blue phase liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23978-23984

  Chen, Chun Wei ^a   Jau, Hung Chang ^a   Wang, Chun Ta ^a   Lee, Chun Hong ^a   Khoo, I C ^b   Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FEEDBACK; PLATELETS; POLYMERS;

BLUE PHASE; COOLING RATES; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXCITATION THRESHOLD; ISOTROPIC LIQUID STATE; LASER DYES; LASING ACTION; LASING THRESHOLD; LASING WAVELENGTH; MESOGENES; MODE CHARACTERISTICS; POLYMER STABILIZED; RANDOM LASING; TEMPERATURE INTERVALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84867295618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023978     Document Type: Article

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