Phenomenological model of anisotropic volume hologram formation in liquid-crystal-photopolymer mixtures

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 951-965

  Sutherland, R L ^a,b   Tondiglia, V P ^a   Natarajan, L V ^a   Bunning, T J ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS (HOE); INITIATOR DYES; PHOTOPOLYMERS;

ANISOTROPY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIFFUSION; DYES; FREE RADICALS; HOLOGRAMS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MONOMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; REACTION KINETICS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 3242721606     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1762713     Document Type: Article

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