Colossal optical nonlinear effects at the nematic-isotropic temperature transition in azo dye-doped liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5936, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Lazo Martinez, I ^a   Guizar Iturbide, I ^a   Olivares Perez, A ^a   Trevino Palacios C G ^a   Ramos Garcia, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; DIFFRACTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

COLOSSAL NONLINEAR EFFECTS; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 31744431877     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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