Supra optical nonlinearities of photosensitive nematic liquid crystals

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 364, Issue , 2001, Pages 141-149

  Khoo, I C ^a   Shih, M Y ^a   Shishido, A ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Micro watt; Nematic Liquid Crystals; Optical limiting; Supra optical nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644447486     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250108024984     Document Type: Article

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