Advanced Materials, Vol.22, No.8, 886-886, 2010
Glass-Forming Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Oligomers for New Tunable Solid-State Laser
A new potential utility of glass-forming cholesteric liquid crystal (G-CLC) oligomers for application in tunable solid-state laser is presented. The G-CLC is capable of tuning the photonic band gaps (PBGs) by way of the annealing temperature and preserving the tuned PBGs by a subsequent supercooling treatment. This G-CLC film enables the facile fabrication of a continuously gradated PGB structure and, thus, the continuous tuning of a single laser-emission peak (see figure).