Abstract
Electrically fine tuning is demonstrated in a cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC) laser based on the polymer composite system. Photo-polymerization in the mixture of LC monomer and LC hardly causes phase separation due to miscibility, forming a microscopically well-mixed polymer-LC composite structure like gel. Light scattering in the polymer-LC composite system decreases with increasing the polymer component, and the composite of equal parts of the polymer and LC exhibits high transparency in electric modulation of the selective reflection band, resulting in high-quality tuning of lasing wavelength in ChLC laser. In tuning operation, the ChLC laser retains a high slope efficiency greater than 19%, a low threshold smaller than 3 nJ/pulse, and a spectral linewidth narrower than 0.13 nm, while the change in lasing wavelength is fully continuous and reaches 13 nm.
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