Coupled-mode approach to the nonlinear dynamics induced by an elliptically polarized laser field in liquid crystals at normal incidence

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Vella, A ^a   Piccirillo, B ^a   Santamato, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; HYSTERESIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC FILMS; TORQUE;

ADIABATIC APPROXIMATION; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED LASER FIELD; HOMEOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 37649032028     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031706     Document Type: Article

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