Orientational photorefractive effects in nematic liquid crystal films

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 525-534

  Khoo, I C ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL WAVE MIXING EFFECTS; ORIENTATIONAL PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECTS; SELF DIFFRACTION; TWO BEAM ENERGY COUPLING;

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0030106548     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.485406     Document Type: Article

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