General properties of lasing effect in chiral liquid crystals

• Autorzy: Palto S. P. , Shtykov N. M. , Umansky B. A. , Barnik M. I. , Blinov L. M.
• Konferencja: International Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonic ; (26-28.04.2006 ; Gent, Belgium)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Numerical simulations and experimental studies of the lasing effect in chiral liquid crystals are presented. It is shown that ring-like light emission, which is often observed experimentally, is a true lasing effect. Lasing condition and different modes in thin liquid crystal layers are discussed.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

liquid crystals; optics; lasing

• Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Elektryków Polskich ; Polska Akademia Nauk ; Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego
• Czasopismo: Opto-Electronics Review
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: Vol. 14, No. 4
• Strony: 323--328
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Palto S. P.

autor

Shtykov N. M.

autor

Umansky B. A.

autor

Barnik M. I.

autor

Blinov L. M.

• Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, 59 Leninsky Sq., 119333 Moscow, Russia,

Bibliografia

• 1. I.P. Il'chishin, E.A. Tikhonov, V.G. Tishchenko, and M.T. Shpak, "Generation of tunable radiation by impurity cholesteric liquid crystals", JETP Lett. 32, 24 (1980).
• 2. V.I. Kopp, B. Fan, H.K.M. Vithana, and A.Z. Genack, "Low-threshold lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals", Opt. Lett. 23, 1707 (1998).
• 3. B. Taheri, A.F. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and R. Twieg, "Low threshold lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 358, 73 (2001).
• 4. Y.C. Yang, C.S. Kee, J.E. Kim, H.Y. Park, J.C. Lee, and Y.J. Jeon, "Photonic defect modes of cholesteric liquid crystals", Phys. Rev. E60, 6852 (1999).
• 5. M. Becchi, S. Ponti, J.A. Reyes, and C. Oldano, "Defect modes in helical photonic crystals: An analytical approach", Phys. Rev. B70, 033103 (2004).
• 6. A. Matsui, M. Ozaki, and K. Yoshino, "Tunable photonic defect modes in a cholesteric liquid crystal induced by optical deformation of helix", Phys. Rev. E69, 061715 (2004).
• 7. V.I. Kopp, Z.Q. Zhang, and A.Z. Genack, "Lasing in chiral photonic structures", Prog. Quant. Electron. 27, 369 (2003).
• 8. A.Y. Bobrovsky, N.I. Boiko, V.P. Shibaev, and J.H. Wendorff, "Cholesteric mixtures with photochemically tunable, circularly polarized fluorescence", Adv. Mater. 15, 282 (2003).
• 9. T. Matsui, R. Ozaki, K. Funamoto, M. Ozaki, and K. Yoshino, "Flexible lasers made from cholesteric liquid crystal polymers", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 413, 2643 (2004).
• 10. M.F. Moreira, I.C.S. Carvalho, W. Cao, C. Bailey, B. Taheri, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Cholesteric liquid-crystal laser as an optic fiber-based temperature sensor", Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2691 (2004).
• 11. A. Chanishvili, G. Chilaya, G. Petriashvili, R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, G. Cipparrone, and A. Mazzulla, "Laser emission from a dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal pumped by another cholesteric liquid crystal laser", Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 3378 (2004).
• 12. D.W. Berreman, "Optics in stratified and anisotropic media: 4×4-matrix formulation", J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 502 (1972).
• 13. S.P. Palto, "Lasing in liquid crystal thin films", JETP 103, 469 (2006).
• 14. L.M. Blinov, G. Cipparrone, P. Pagluisi, V.V. Lazarev, and S.P. Palto, "Mirrorless lasing from nematic liquid crystals in the plane waveguide geometry without refractive index or gain modulation", Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 0311114 (2006).