Development of Laser Dyes to Realize Low Threshold in Dye??Doped Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Lasers

…, Y Watanabe, F Araoka, J Watanabe…

Index: Uchimura, Makoto; Watanabe, Yo; Araoka, Fumito; Watanabe, Junji; Takezoe, Hideo; Konishi, Gen-Ichi Advanced Materials, 2010 , vol. 22, # 40 p. 4473 - 4478

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Abstract

Cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) have attracted much attention for use in a distributed feedback (DFB) laser cavity and their application to wavelength-tunable dye lasers.[1–6] For practical applications, however, the lasing threshold must be lowered essentially to zero. ...