Enhanced two-beam coupling in colloids of ferroelectric nanoparticles in liquid crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1512-1516

  Buchnev, Oleksandr ^a   Dyadyusha, Andriy ^b   Kaczmarek, Malgosia ^b   Reshetnyak, Victor ^c   Reznikov, Yuriy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; COLLOIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES;

FERROELECTRIC PARTICLES; PERMANENT DIPOLE MOMENT; TWO-BEAM COUPLING;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34548297917     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.001512     Document Type: Article

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