title: Tunable lasing from a cholesteric liquid crystal film embedded with a liquid crystal nanopore network.
abstract: Continuous tuning of lasing wavelength is achieved in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers by embedding a network of nanopores with an average size of 10 nm filled with liquid crystals inside a polymerized matrix with helical order. The device possesses both high transparency and a fast response time because the tuning is driven by local reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules in the nanopores.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
authors.forename: Yo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shiozaki
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozaki
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D007834:Lasers; D050866:Liquid Crystals / Q000737:chemistry*; D058608:Nanopores; D013057:Spectrum Analysis