Generation of tunable radiation by impurity cholesteric liquid crystals
ll'chishin I. P. , Tikhonov E. A., Tishchenko V. G. , Shpak M.T.
A generation of light in dye-activated oriented layers of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC) was obtained for the first time. The spiral structure of the CLC provided a distributed feedback. Temperature tuning of a narrow generation band was obtained experimentally as a result of temperature variation of the pitch of the cholesteric spiral.