Cumulative birefringence effects of nanosecond laser pulses in dye-doped planar nematic liquid crystal layers

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 341-350

  Lukishova, Svetlana G ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Lepeshkin, Nick ^a   Marshall, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Induced birefringence; Liquid crystals; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IRRADIATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

ELECTRIC-FIELD-INDUCED REORIENTATION; INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; LASER INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; PATTERN FORMATION; PERPENDICULAR POLARIZATION; PLANAR NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; SPATIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PATTERN FORMATION;

INDUCED POLARIZATION LOGGING;

EID: 0037005096     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863502001097     Document Type: Article

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