Beam coupling in nanotube-doped nematic liquid-crystal films

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 791-795

  Lee, Wei ^a   Yeh, Sheng Long ^a   Chang, Chih Chao ^a   Lee, Chien Chih ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

BEAM-COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; COHERENT-BEAM AMPLIFICATION; GAIN PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RESPONSES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0000611299     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000791     Document Type: Article

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