Polarization characteristics of phase retardation defect mode lasing in polymeric cholesteric liquid crystals

被引:25
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作者
Song, MH
Shin, KC
Park, B
Takanishi, Y
Ishikawa, K
Watanabe, J
Nishimura, S
Toyooka, T
Zhu, ZG
Swager, TM
Takezoe, H [1 ]
机构
[1] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Organ & Polymer Mat, Meguro Ku, Tokyo 1528552, Japan
[2] Nippon Oil Corp, Cent Tech Res Lab, Naka Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2310815, Japan
[3] MIT, Dept Chem, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
基金
日本学术振兴会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
photonic band gap; polymer cholesteric liquid crystal; defect mode; lasing; phase retardation; polarization;
D O I
10.1016/j.stam.2004.01.020
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We have studied the lasing characteristics of a dye-doped nematic layer sandwiched by two polymeric cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) films as photonic band gap (PBG) materials. The nematic layer acts as a defect layer, the anisotropy of which brings about the following remarkable optical characteristics: (1) reflectance in the PBG region exceeds 50% due to the retardation effect, being unpredictable from a single CLC film; (2) efficient lasing occurs either at the defect mode wavelength or at the photonic band edge; and (3) the lasing emission due to both the defect mode and the photonic band edge mode contains both right- and left-circular polarizations, while the lasing emission from a dye-doped single CLC layer with a left-handed helix is left-circularly polarized. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:437 / 441
页数:5
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