Beam amplification and clean-up with two- and four-wave mixing in photorefractive nematic liquid crystal films

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3143, Issue , 1997, Pages 191-200

  Guenther, Brett D ^a   Khoo, I C ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Beam amplification; Beam clean up; Nematic liquid crystal; Photorefractive; Wave mixing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; CROSSTALK; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

BEAM AMPLIFICATION;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0031299330     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.290765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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