Photorefractive-like all-optical switching in nematic-photoconducting polymer liquid crystal cell

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 489, Issue , 2008, Pages 119/[445]-134/[460]

  Miniewicz, Andrzej ^a,b   Mysliwiec, Jaroslaw ^a   Pawlaczyk, Piotr ^a   Zielinski, Marcin ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dynamic holography; Liquid crystal; Optical switching; Spatial light modulator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOREACTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; DYNAMIC HOLOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICALLY ADDRESSED SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTOCONDUCTING POLYMERS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 51849148049     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400802219718     Document Type: Article

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