Light-induced director reorientation in nematic liquid crystal under femtosecond pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4751, Issue , 2002, Pages 297-300

  Goncharov, A A ^a   Kitaeva, V F ^b   Ozheredov, I A ^a   Shkurinov, A P ^a   Zolot'ko, A S ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b International Laser Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Nematic liquid crystals; Self focusing

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ANISOTROPY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0036416939     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475924     Document Type: Article

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