Electrically tunable liquid crystal optical microresonators

• DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.170
• Publication Date: 2009-09-27T17:28:11Z
• Authors: M. Humar; M. Ravnik; S. Pajk; I. Muševič
• Keywords: Whispering gallery

Whispering-gallery-mode resonators made of nematic liquid-crystal droplets offer a wavelength tunability approximately two orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional solid-state microresonators.