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Nonlinear Optical Processes and Applications in the Infrared with Nematic Liquid Crystals

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Nematic liquid crystal films possess several unique characteristics for applications in optical wave mixings and beam amplifications in the infrared spectral region. We present new theoretical understandings of optical multiwave mixing and beam amplifications in nematic liquid crystal films. Low power laser beams, with intensities of the order of a few Watts/cm2, are found to be sufficient to generate large useful effects, in conjunction with the director axis reorientational and thermal nonlinearities.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, PA, USA

    I. C. Khoo

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  1. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Paras N. Prasad

  2. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Washington, DC, USA

    Donald R. Ulrich

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Khoo, I.C. (1988). Nonlinear Optical Processes and Applications in the Infrared with Nematic Liquid Crystals. In: Prasad, P.N., Ulrich, D.R. (eds) Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0953-6_28

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