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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 2, 137(2019)

Wide tunable laser based on electrically regulated bandwidth broadening in polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal

Hongbo Lu1,2,7、*, Cheng Wei1, Qiang Zhang1, Miao Xu1,2, Yunsheng Ding2, Guobing Zhang1,2, Jun Zhu1,2, Kang Xie3, Xiaojuan Zhang4, Zhijia Hu3,4,5,6、*, and Longzhen Qiu1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Special Display Technology, National Engineering Laboratory of Special Display Technology, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Display Technology, Academy of Opto-Electronic Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Devices, Anhui Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 3School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • 4Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621000, China
  • 6e-mail: zhijiahu@hfut.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: bozhilu@hfut.edu.cn
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    Category: Optoelectronics

    Received: Oct. 15, 2018

    Accepted: Nov. 24, 2018

    Published Online: Feb. 19, 2019

    The Author Email: Hongbo Lu (bozhilu@hfut.edu.cn), Zhijia Hu (zhijiahu@hfut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000137

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