Liquid crystal lasers: the last decade and the future

J Mysliwiec, A Szukalska, A Szukalski, L Sznitko - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
The demonstration of the first ruby laser in 1960 led to a revolution in science and
technology. The lasers have significantly influenced the development of new approaches to …

Liquid-crystal lasers

H Coles, S Morris - Nature Photonics, 2010 - nature.com
Liquid-crystal lasers are a burgeoning area in the field of soft-matter photonics that may
herald a new era of ultrathin, highly versatile laser sources. Such lasers encompass a …

Photonics of liquid-crystal structures: A review

SP Palto, LM Blinov, MI Barnik, VV Lazarev… - Crystallography …, 2011 - Springer
The original results of studies of the electro-optical and laser effects which have been
performed at the Laboratory of Liquid Crystals of the Institute of Crystallography, Russian …

Spectrally narrow emissions at cutoff wavelength from edges of optically and electrically pumped anisotropic organic films

D Yokoyama, M Moriwake, C Adachi - Journal of Applied Physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The authors investigated the characteristics of spectrally narrow emissions at the cutoff
wavelength from the edges of optically and electrically pumped organic semiconductor films …

Synthesis and characterization of ZnS/hyperbranched polyester nanocomposite and its optical properties

Y Zhao, F Wang, Q Fu, W Shi - Polymer, 2007 - Elsevier
The ZnS/hyperbranched polyester nanocomposite with higher refractive index was prepared
by incorporating the acrylated 2-(2-mercapto-acetoxy)-ethyl ester-capped ZnS nanoparticles …

Fluidic fibre dye lasers

AE Vasdekis, GE Town, GA Turnbull, IDW Samuel - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We report the demonstration of compact fluidic fibre lasers based on capillary tubes and
photonic crystal fibres, featuring single channel and multiple laterally integrated fluidic lasers …

Cone-shaped emissions in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers: The role of anomalous scattering in photonic structures

CL Folcia, J Ortega, J Etxebarria - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
The out-of-normal emission in cholesteric liquid-crystal lasers is studied experimental and
theoretically. Apart from the well-known dominant laser in the direction of the helix axis …

Light amplification in tunable multicolor liquid crystalline system

A Adamow, A Szukalski, A Justyniarski, L Sznitko… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multicolor emission exhibited by complex organic systems is interesting and desired
phenomenon for many optical applications. Laser devices capable to emit the light in the …

A random laser made of nematic liquid crystal doped with a laser dye

L Sznitko, K Kaliciak, A Adamow, J Mysliwiec - Optical Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
We report on random laser emission obtained in 5CB and E7 nematic liquid crystal (LC)
mixtures doped with 1% weight to weight ratio of DCM laser dye. The LC cell was used as …

Multiwave out-of-normal band-edge lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals

SP Palto, NM Shtykov, BA Umanskii… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated the lasing effect in dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals, where the
photonic stop-band for light propagating along the helical axis coinciding with the layer …