Adaptive holography in liquid crystal light-valves

Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1546-1559

  Bortolozzo, Umberto ^a   Residori, Stefania ^a   Huignard, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b Jphopto   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive holography; Liquid crystals; Picometer detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HOLOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC HOLOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEM; OPTICAL BEAMS; RADIATION-INDUCED; RESONANT PROCESS; SPECKLE FIELD; TWO WAVE MIXING;

PHASE MODULATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84866174372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma5091546     Document Type: Article

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