Enhancing cholesteric liquid crystal laser performance using a cholesteric reflector

被引：57

作者：

Zhou, Y ^{[1
]}

Huang, Y ^{[1
]}

Wu, ST ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Cent Florida, Coll Opt & Photon, Orlando, FL 32816 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2006年 / 14卷 / 09期

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D O I：

10.1364/OE.14.003906

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A high performance dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) laser is demonstrated by incorporating a passive CLC reflector to the active cell. The polarization-conserved CLC reflector effectively increases the distributed feedback cavity length which, in turn, results in a significant enhancement in lasing efficiency and a dramatic reduction in beam divergence. The lasing characteristics are still dominated by the circularly polarized light with the same sense as the cholesteric helix. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：3906 / 3916

页数：11

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