Nematic liquid crystal optical amplifier consisting of layered structures

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2707-2710

  Pei, Yanbo ^a   Yao, Fengfeng ^a   Zhang, Jianlong ^a   Hou, Chunfeng ^a   Sun, Xiudong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ENERGY TRANSFER; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS;

ASYMMETRIC ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE; HIGHER-ORDER DIFFRACTION; LAYERED STRUCTURES; NEMATIC LAYERS; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE GRATINGS; TWO-BEAM COUPLING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 67649273460     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002707     Document Type: Article

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