Behavior of the nonlinear refractive indices and birefringence in the neighborhood of first- and second-order phase transitions in lyotropic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Cuppo, F L S ^a   Gomez S L ^a   Figueiredo Neto, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS; TOPOLOGY;

BIAXIAL NEMATIC DOMAINS; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749099898     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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