Light-induced director axis reorientation in a dye-doped ferroelectric liquid crystal and its application to self-aligned spatial filtering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1916-1920

  Inoue, Takashi ^a   Tomita, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 0030493181     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.001916     Document Type: Article

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