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Planar dye lasers in isotropic and anisotropic oriented media

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Planar dye lasers in isotropic and anisotropic media are described. Isotropic structures supporting real modes are considered as well as leaky modes. The anisotropic structure is obtained with an oriented liquid crystal which can be made to lase in both the nematic and smectic phase.

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Tikhonov, E., Bertolotti, M. & Scudieri, F. Planar dye lasers in isotropic and anisotropic oriented media. Appl. Phys. 11, 357–361 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00919364

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