Electrically tunable laser based on oblique heliconical cholesteric liquid crystal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 46, 2016, Pages 12925-12928

  Xiang, Jie ^a   Varanytsia, Andrii ^a   Minkowski, Fred ^a   Paterson, Daniel A ^b   Storey, John M D ^b   Imrie, Corrie T ^b   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystals; Electric tunability; Heliconical structure; Lasing

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD; FREQUENCY DOUBLED NEODYMIUM YAG LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULE; PERIODICITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84994824021     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612212113     Document Type: Article

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