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

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

Shaohua Gao^1、2, Jiayi Wang¹, Wenhua Li¹, Xuanyi Yu¹, Xinzheng Zhang^{1、3、7、*}, Xiao Song¹, Andrey Iljin^4、8、*, Irena Drevensek-Olenik⁵, Romano A. Rupp^1、6, and Jingjun Xu^{1、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[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(5): 642 Copy Citation Text

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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[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(5): 642

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