Dye laser emission in liquid crystal hosts
- 15 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 18 (4) , 528-531
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.18.000528
Abstract
Laser action in dyes dissolved in liquid crystal matrices is described. Planar thin film structures, filled with rhodamine 6G dissolved in CBOA, M24, and K18 liquid crystals, have been studied. Lasing action has been obtained in the isotropic, nematic, and smectic mesophases. In liquid crystal mesophases, alignment of the lasing dye molecules was achieved, as is evident from the polarized properties of the emitted light and by the pumping characteristics.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Planar dye lasers in isotropic and anisotropic oriented mediaApplied Physics A, 1976
- Light scattering from nematic liquid crystal waveguidesJournal of Applied Physics, 1975
- Losses of a nematic liquid-crystal optical waveguide*Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1974
- Mode dispersion in uniaxial optical waveguides*Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1974
- GUEST-HOST INTERACTIONS IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS. A NEW ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECTApplied Physics Letters, 1968