Far-field patterns from dye-doped planar-aligned nematic liquid crystals under nanosecond laser irradiation

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 453, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 393-401

  Lukishova, Svetlana G ^a   Lepeshkin, Nick ^a,c   Boyd, Robert ^a   Marshall, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dye doped planar aligned nematic liquid crystals; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

DYE-DOPED PLANAR-ALIGNED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; INHOMOGENEITIES; KALEIDOSCOPE; PATTERN FORMATION;

DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; REFRACTION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745667544     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400600653951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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