Characterization of the diffraction efficiency of new holographic gratings with a nematic film-polymer-slice sequence structure

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1939-1947

  Caputo, Roberto ^a,b   Veltri, Alessandro ^a,b   Umeton, Cesare P ^a,b   Sukhov, Andrey V ^c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MONOMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; KOGELNIK THEORY;

HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 9244236032     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001939     Document Type: Article

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