Optical cavity with a double-layered cholesteric liquid crystal mirror and its prospective application to solid state laser

Soon Moon Jeong; Koji Sonoyama; Yoichi Takanishi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe; Suzushi Nishimura; Goro Suzaki; Myoung Hoon Song

doi:10.1063/1.2404937

Optical cavity with a double-layered cholesteric liquid crystal mirror and its prospective application to solid state laser

Soon Moon Jeong, Koji Sonoyama, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, Suzushi Nishimura, Goro Suzaki, Myoung Hoon Song

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The authors have fabricated an optical cavity with silver (Ag) and double-layered cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) mirrors facing each other. This CLC mirror consists of left-handed CLC and right-handed CLC films for high light reflection irrespective of polarization states. A single-mode lasing was observed in dye-doped CLC sandwiched between Ag and double-layered CLC mirrors. The authors also fabricated a flexible solid state device with a spin-coated dye molecular film sandwiched between Ag and double-layered CLC mirrors. Amplified spontaneous emission was observed from the solid state device, suggesting a possible structure for a flexible and tunable solid state laser.

Original language	English
Article number	241116
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2404937
State	Published - 2006

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This work is partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research (16656023) by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and a New Energy Technology Development Organization grant (Project ID 04A24509). The authors acknowledge Merck Japan Ltd. for supplying NLC (ZLI2293) and the chiral dopant (MLC6247).

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