Two-photon excitation of dye-doped liquid crystal by a CW-laser irradiation

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 489, Issue , 2008, Pages 310/[636]-319/[645]

  Murazawa, Naoki ^a   Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a   Kamada, Kenji ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser trapping; Liquid crystals; Molecular ordering; Photo luminescence; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DROPS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; FEMTOSECOND Z-SCAN METHOD; LASER TRAPPING; LIQUID-CRYSTAL DROPLETS; MOLECULAR ORDERING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION (2PA); TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 51849106164     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400802218785     Document Type: Article

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