Temperature effect on lasing from Penrose photonic quasicrystal

Temperature effect on lasing from a Penrose photonic quasicrystal made of low index contrast materials holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals was investigated. A blue-shift of lasing peak was observed with increased temperature in the range of 25 °C~50 °C. The transmission spectra of Penrose photonic quasicrystal was studied through FDTD simulation, which showed a correlation between the lasing peak and the transmission spectrum. The tunable property could be understood by the elliptical shape of liquid crystal droplets formed in the Penrose quasicrystal. ©2014 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (140.3600) Lasers, tunable; (160.3710) Liquid crystals. References and links 1. T. J. Bunning, L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, and R. L. Sutherland, “Holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (H-PDLCs),” Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci. 30(1), 83–115 (2000). 2. R. L. Sutherland, V. P. Tondiglia, L. V. Natarajan, S. Chandra, D. Tomlin, and T. J. Bunning, “Switchable orthorhombic F photonic crystals formed by holographic polymerization-induced phase separation of liquid crystal,” Opt. Express 10(20), 1074–1082 (2002). 3. S. P. Gorkhali, J. Qi, and G. P. Crawford, “Switchable quasi-crystal structures with five-, seven-, and ninefold symmetries,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(1), 149–158 (2006). 4. K. Sakoda, “Enhanced light amplification due to group-velocity anomaly peculiar to twoand three-dimensional photonic crystals,” Opt. Express 4(5), 167–176 (1999). 5. R. Jakubiak, V. P. Tondiglia, L. V. Natarajan, R. L. Sutherland, P. Lloyd, T. J. Bunning, and R. A. Vaia, “Dynamic lasing from all-organic two-dimensional photonic crystals,” Adv. Mater. 17(23), 2807–2811 (2005). 6. D. Luo, X. W. Sun, H. T. Dai, H. V. Demir, H. Z. Yang, and W. Ji, “Two-directional lasing from a dye-doped two-dimensional hexagonal photonic crystal made of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 95(15), 151115 (2009). 7. M. S. Li, A. Y. Fuh, and S. T. Wu, “Multimode lasing from the microcavity of an octagonal quasi-crystal based on holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals,” Opt. Lett. 37(15), 3249–3251 (2012). 8. H. J. Coles and S. M. Morris, “Liquid-crystal lasers,” Nat. Photonics 4(10), 676–685 (2010). 9. W. Cao, A. Muñoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and B. Taheri, “Lasing in a three-dimensional photonic crystal of the liquid crystal blue phase II,” Nat. Mater. 1(2), 111–113 (2002). 10. D. Luo, Q. G. Du, H. T. Dai, H. V. Demir, H. Z. Yang, W. Ji, and X. W. Sun, “Strongly linearly polarized low threshold lasing of all organic photonic quasicrystals,” Sci Rep 2, 627 (2012). 11. D. E. Lucchetta, L. Criante, O. Francescangeli, and F. Simoni, “Wavelength flipping in laser emission driven by a switchable holographic grating,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 84(6), 837–839 (2004). 12. D. E. Lucchetta, L. Criante, O. Francescangeli, and F. Simoni, “Compact lasers based on HPDLC gratings,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Phila. Pa.) 441(1), 97–109 (2005). 13. R. Jakubiak, L. V. Natarajan, V. Tondiglia, G. S. He, P. N. Prasad, T. J. Bunning, and R. A. Vaia, “Electrically switchable lasing from pyrromethene 597 embedded holographic-polymer dispersed liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(25), 6095–6097 (2004). 14. V. K. S. Hsiao, C. Lu, G. S. He, M. Pan, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, R. Jakubiak, R. A. Vaia, and T. J. Bunning, “High contrast switching of distributed-feedback lasing in dye-doped H-PDLC transmission grating structures,” Opt. Express 13(10), 3787–3794 (2005). #210261 $15.00 USD Received 15 Apr 2014; revised 9 May 2014; accepted 9 May 2014; published 13 May 2014 (C) 2014 OSA 1 June 2014 | Vol. 4, No. 6 | DOI:10.1364/OME.4.001172 | OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS 1172 15. Y. J. Liu, X. W. Sun, H. I. Elim, and W. Ji, “Effect of liquid crystal concentration on the lasing properties of dye-doped holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal transmission gratings,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(1), 011109 (2007). 16. D. Luo, X. W. Sun, H. T. Dai, H. V. Demir, H. Z. Yang, and W. Ji, “Electrically tunable lasing from a dyedoped two-dimensional hexagonal photonic crystal made of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(8), 081101 (2010). 17. D. Luo, X. W. Sun, H. T. Dai, H. V. Demir, H. Z. Yang, and W. Ji, “Temperature effect on the lasing from a dye-doped two-dimensional hexagonal photonic crystal made of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals,” J. Appl. Phys. 108(1), 013106 (2010). 18. T. T. Alkeskjold, J. Lægsgaard, A. Bjarklev, D. S. Hermann, A. Anawati, J. Broeng, J. Li, and S. T. Wu, “Alloptical modulation in dye-doped nematic liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers,” Opt. Express 12(24), 5857–