The dependence of orientational optical nonlinearity in dye-doped liquid-crystal films on the polarization direction of the recording beams

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 651-656

  Gao, Hongyue ^a   Jiang, Yongyuan ^a   Zhou, Zhongxiang ^a   Gu, Kaiyu ^a   Gong, Dewei ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Holographic gratings; Liquid crystals; Optical polarization; Orientational optical nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; MOLECULES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PROBES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE EQUATIONS;

COHERENT WAVE-MIXING; INDEX TERMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; RECORDING PARAMETERS; TWO-BEAM COUPLING; GRATING FORMATION;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 34249035650     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.876719     Document Type: Article

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