Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
PHASES; Optics
Abstract
We have investigated the physical and optical properties of the left-handed chiral dopant ZLI-811 mixed in a nematic liquid crystal (LC) host BL006. The solubility of ZLI-811 in BL006 at room temperature is similar to 24 wt%, but can be enhanced by increasing the temperature. Consequently, the photonic band gap of the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) mixed with more than 24 wt% chiral dopant ZLI-811 is blue shifted as the temperature increases. Based on this property, we demonstrate two applications in thermally tunable band-pass filters and dye-doped CLC lasers.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
14
Issue/Number
3
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
1236
Last Page
1242
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Huang, Yuhua; Zhou, Ying; Doyle, Charlie; and Wu, Shin-Tson, "Tuning the photonic band gap in cholesteric liquid crystals by temperature-dependent dopant solubility" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6238.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6238
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