Enhancing cholesteric liquid crystal laser performance using a cholesteric reflector

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作者
Zhou, Y [1 ]
Huang, Y [1 ]
Wu, ST [1 ]
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[1] Univ Cent Florida, Coll Opt & Photon, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
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10.1364/OE.14.003906
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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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.
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页码:3906 / 3916
页数:11
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