Liquid-crystalline blue phase laser with widely tunable wavelength

Adv Mater. 2013 Jun 4;25(21):3002-6. doi: 10.1002/adma.201204591. Epub 2013 Mar 11.

Authors

Sung-Taek Hur¹, Bo Ram Lee, Min-Jun Gim, Kyung-Won Park, Myoung Hoon Song, Suk-Won Choi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Advance Materials Engineering for Information and Electronics/Regional, Innovation Center-Components and Materials for Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-shi, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea.

PMID: 23483707
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201204591

Abstract

A lasing peak shift of more than 100 nm is realized due to the large shift of a photonic bandgap of a liquid-crystalline blue phase.

Keywords: laser emission; liquid-crystalline phase; photonic crystals; tunable lasing.

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