Simulations and experiments on self-focusing conditions in nematic liquid-crystal planar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1011-1018

  Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Hutsebaut, Xavier ^b   Cambournac, Cyril ^b   Haelterman, Marc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LIQUID-CRYSTAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 2942708068     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001011     Document Type: Article

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