Toward practical application of cholesteric liquid crystals to tunable lasers†
Abstract
To realize practical application of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) to photonic tunable laser devices, two efforts have been made: (1) photopolymerization and (2) use of third-harmonic generation (THG) for excitation. The proposed system is based on a spatial optical-pitch gradient in CLCs and doping of two organic
- This article is part of the themed collection: Liquid crystals beyond display applications