Competitive excitation and osmotic-pressure-mediated control of lasing modes in cholesteric liquid crystal microshells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2017, Pages

  Lin, Ya Li ^a   Gong, Ling Li ^a   Che, Kai Jun ^a   Li, Sen Sen ^a   Chu, Cheng Xu ^a   Cai, Zhi Ping ^a   Yang, Chaoyong James ^b   Chen, Lu Jian ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OSMOSIS;

BEAM DIAMETERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; GLASS CAPILLARIES; LASING MECHANISMS; MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TUNABLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES; WHISPERING GALLERY;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EID: 85019979950     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4984743     Document Type: Article

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