Orientational gratings in dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals induced by the photorefractive effect

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1505-1507

  Cipparrone, G ^a   Mazzulla, A ^a   Simoni, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DYES; EPOXY RESINS; ISOMERIZATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIQUID CRYSTAL REORIENTATION; ORIENTATIONAL GRATINGS; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECT; TWO BEAM COUPLING; WRITING BEAM POLARIZATION;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0032184630     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.001505     Document Type: Article

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