High-efficiency optical transfer of torque to a nematic liquid crystal droplet

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 4657-4659

  Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Matsuo, Shigeki ^a   Murazawa, Naoki ^a   Hasegawa, Ichiro ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TORQUE;

SINGLE-BEAM LASER TWEEZERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038105478     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1588366     Document Type: Article

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