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Tunable lasing from a cholesteric liquid crystal film embedded with a liquid crystal nanopore network
Yo Inoue1, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Kenta Inoue
1Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|November 15, 2011
Abstract:
Continuous tuning of lasing wavelength is achieved in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers by embedding a network of nanopores with an average size of 10 nm filled with liquid crystals inside a polymerized matrix with helical order. The device possesses both high transparency and a fast response time because the tuning is driven by local reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules in the nanopores.
