All-optical switching of diffraction gratings infiltrated with dye-doped liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Lucchetta, D E ^a   Vita, F ^a   Simoni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICES; DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; METHYL RED; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATE; PUMP BEAMS; STATIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; TRANSMISSION GRATINGS;

CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 78650356763     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3525174     Document Type: Article

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