Photoinduced anisotropy measurements in liquid-crystalline azobenzene side-chain polyesters

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 4622-4627

  Holme, N C R ^a   Ramanujam, P S ^a,b   Hvilsted, S ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Department of Optics and Fluid Dynamics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Azobenzene; Holography; Optical storage; Polymers

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FILM PREPARATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HELIUM NEON LASERS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHASE SHIFT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ARGON ION LASERS; AZOBENZENE; CHROMOPHORES; PHOTOINDUCED ANISOTROPY; WRITE BEAM;

POLYESTERS;

EID: 0030216227     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004622     Document Type: Article

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