Coherent beam amplification with a photorefractive liquid crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1229-1231

  Khoo, I C ^a   Guenther, B D ^a   Wood, M V ^a   Chen, P ^a   Shih, Min Yi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FULLERENES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT REFRACTION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS;

COHERENT BEAM AMPLIFICATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL FILM; PHOTOREFRACTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0031206914     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.001229     Document Type: Article

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