Optical recording of holograms in azo-polymer-stabilized nematic liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4463, Issue , 2001, Pages 21-25

  Dumont, Dany ^a   Galstian, Tigran V ^a   Zhao, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Azo dye; Electrooptical switch; Polymer network; Polymer stabilized liquid crystals; PSLC

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; ANISOTROPY; AZO DYES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; HOLOGRAMS; OPTICAL RECORDING; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

POLYMER-STABILIZED LIQUID CRYSTALS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035765479     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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