Controllable optical intensity limiting of a He-Ne laser with host-guest liquid crystals

Optics Communications

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 60-62

  Ono, Hiroshi ^a   Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro ^b  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Host guest; Liquid crystal; Optical limiting device; Photothermal effect; Self phase modulation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE MODULATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HOST GUEST LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFECTS;

HELIUM NEON LASERS;

EID: 0031168454     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00105-3     Document Type: Article

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