Nanoparticle doped organic-inorganic hybrid photorefractives

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4015-4022

  Cook, G ^a,b   Glushchenko, A V ^c   Reshetnyak, V ^d   Griffith, A T ^e   Salen, M A ^f   Evans, D R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^f UES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HYBRID MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES;

BEAM COUPLINGS; FERROELECTRIC PARTICLES; FLEXOPOLARIZATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CELLS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

INORGANIC CHEMICALS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41149094155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004015     Document Type: Article

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