Speckle suppression of laser light using liquid crystals aligned by photoisomerization of dye molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 27, 2002, Pages 5111-5113

  Sueda, Keiichi ^a   Tsubakimoto, Kouji ^a   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECKLE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0347926428     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1533123     Document Type: Article

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