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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 5, 642(2020)

Low threshold random lasing in dye-doped and strongly disordered chiral liquid crystals

Shaohua Gao1,2, Jiayi Wang1, Wenhua Li1, Xuanyi Yu1, Xinzheng Zhang1,3,7、*, Xiao Song1, Andrey Iljin4,8、*, Irena Drevensek-Olenik5, Romano A. Rupp1,6, and Jingjun Xu1,3,9、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
  • 2Institute of Optoelectronic Engineering, College of Physics & Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
  • 3Synergetic Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 4Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauki 46, Kiev 03028, Ukraine
  • 5Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and Department of Complex Matter, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 6Faculty of Physics, Vienna University, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria
  • 7e-mail: zxz@nankai.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: lgtc@iop.kiev.ua
  • 9e-mail: jjxu@nankai.edu.cn
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    Shaohua Gao, Jiayi Wang, Wenhua Li, Xuanyi Yu, Xinzheng Zhang, Xiao Song, Andrey Iljin, Irena Drevensek-Olenik, Romano A. Rupp, Jingjun Xu, "Low threshold random lasing in dye-doped and strongly disordered chiral liquid crystals," Photonics Res. 8, 642 (2020)

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Jan. 22, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 5, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 17, 2020

    The Author Email: Xinzheng Zhang (zxz@nankai.edu.cn), Andrey Iljin (lgtc@iop.kiev.ua), Jingjun Xu (jjxu@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.388706

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