Liquid Crystalline Azobenzene-Containing Polymer as a Matrix for Distributed Feedback Lasers

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 885-893

  Goldenberg, Leonid M ^a,d   Lisinetskii, Victor ^a   Ryabchun, Alexander ^b,c   Bobrovsky, Alexey ^c   Schrader, Sigurd ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Plasmachem GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

azobenzene; distributed feedback; holography; lasing; liquid crystal; polarization diffraction grating

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID LASERS; LIQUIDS; POLARIZATION;

AZOBENZENE-CONTAINING POLYMER; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; LASING; LASING WAVELENGTH; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; POLARIZATION DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; POLARIZATION GRATINGS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84926016914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500183n     Document Type: Article

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