Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Perumbilavil S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6155064 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180921 1
Random lasers are resonator-less light sources where feedback stems from recurrent scattering at the expense of spatial profile and directionality. Suitably-doped nematic liquid crystals can random lase when optically pumped near resonance(s); moreover, through molecular reorientation within the transparency region, they support self-guided optical spatial solitons, i.e., light-induced waveguides. Here, we synergistically combine solitons and collinear pumping in weakly scattering dye-doped nema ...[more]