Nonlinear optical properties of fast, photoswitchable cholesteric liquid crystal bandgaps

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 943-952

  Hrozhyk, Uladzimir A ^a   Serak, Svetlana V ^a   Tabiryan, Nelson V ^a   White, Timothy J ^b   Bunning, Timothy J ^b  

^a BEAM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS CO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MAXIMA; AZOBENZENE DYES; CIS-TRANS ISOMERIZATION; MESOGENICS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTO-SWITCHABLE; REFLECTED LASER; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; WAVELENGTH SCALE; ABSORPTION STATE; BLUE GREEN LASER;

AZOBENZENE; ENERGY GAP; IRRADIATION; LASER RADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ISOMERIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84857331125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000943     Document Type: Article

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