Optically tunable/switchable omnidirectionally spherical microlaser based on a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal microdroplet with an azo-chiral dopant

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15765-15776

  Lin, Jia De ^a   Hsieh, Meng Hung ^a   Wei, Guan Jhong ^a   Mo, Ting Shan ^b   Huang, Shuan Yu ^c,d   Lee, Chia Rong ^a  

^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

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLECULES; PHOTONICS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; HELICAL TWISTING POWER; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LASING EMISSIONS; LASING WAVELENGTH; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; WEAK UV IRRADIATION;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84879917828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015765     Document Type: Article

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