Pretransitional enhancement of the optical nonlinearity of thin dye-doped liquid crystals in the nematic phase

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Lucchetti, L ^a   Gentili, M ^a   Simoni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MICROSCOPES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

NEMATIC PHASE; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL RESPONSE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 20844435939     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1905796     Document Type: Article

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