Liquid Crystal Lasers: Tunable Sources for Biology and Medicine

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Dye Laser Systems and Photonic Crystals

  • The distributed feedback laser

  • Organic laser dyes and dye laser systems

  • Photonic crystals

• Liquid Crystal Lasers

  • Experimental setup for lasing

  • Cholesteric liquid crystals

  • Other liquid crystal configurations

  • Liquid crystals in distributed feedback lasers

• Liquid Crystal Lasers in Biology and Medicine

  • Lasing in biology

  • Lasing in medicine

  • Conclusion

• Bibliography