Variation of nonlinear refractive index in dye-doped liquid crystals by local and nonlocal mechanisms

Optical Materials

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 350-360

  Rodríguez Rosales, Antonio A ^a   Morales Saavedra, Omar G ^a   Román Moreno, Carlos J ^a   Ortega Martínez, Roberto ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Kerr effect; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical nonlinearities in organic materials; Self action effects; Z Scan

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HE-NE LASER IRRADIATION; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES IN ORGANIC MATERIALS; SELF-ACTION EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; Z-SCAN;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 55949126321     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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