Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 35, Issue 10, 1477(2008)

Random Lasing in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymer Solution

He Benqiao1、*, Liao Qing2, and Huang Yong3
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    Random lasing action of rhodamine 6G (R6G) in ethyl-cryanoethyl cellulose [(E-CE)C]/acrylic acid (AA) cholesteric liquid crystal (LC) solution without doping fine powder was firstly studied. It is found that random laser with coherent feedback occurrs in the LC solutions, while only narrowing spectra phenomenon was observed in isotropic (E-CE)C/AA solution and AA solvent. And the narrowest full-wavelength at half-maximum (FWHM) of laser peak is 0.3 nm. The laser threshold changes from 27 μJ to 20 μJ when the concentration of (E-CE)C/AA solution varies from 35% to 46.5%. This random laser with coherent feedback is related to the multiple scattering resulting from the selected reflection and low diffusion constant in LC solution.

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    He Benqiao, Liao Qing, Huang Yong. Random Lasing in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymer Solution[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2008, 35(10): 1477

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    Received: Jan. 15, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 24, 2008

    The Author Email: Benqiao He (hebq2008@gmail.com)

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