Increasing the lasing efficiency in cholesteric liquid-crystal photonic structures
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography (Russian Federation)
Two types of lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) in the range of luminescence of laser dye molecules have been investigated. The first type belongs to the Bragg modes at the photonic band edge, which propagate along the normal to the LC layer. The second type of lasing is related to the modes leaking into the substrate and propagating at small angles to the LC layer. It is shown that the Bragg lasing efficiency can be significantly increased under wide-aperture optical pumping. The method proposed for increasing the lasing efficiency is based on suppressing the excitation of leaky laser modes using partially absorbing thin films as the coatings for LC-orienting substrates. Both experimental results and the theoretical model of the effect using the numerical simulation data are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22051218
- Journal Information:
- Crystallography Reports, Vol. 55, Issue 2; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7745
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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