Nematic liquid crystal waveguide arrays

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-112

  Brzdakiewicz K A ^a   Karpierz, M A ^a   Fratalocchi, A ^b   Assanto, G ^b   Nowinowski Kruszelnicki, E ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Discrete diffraction; Nonlinear optics; Optical nonlinearity in liquid crystals; Self action effects; Solitons

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

DISCRETE DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY IN LIQUID CRYSTALS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SELF-ACTION EFFECTS;

ARRAYS;

EID: 22144490212     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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