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Photorefractivity and Optical Wave Mixing Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Fullerene Derivatives and Dyes
The photorefractive effect has been observed and documented for decades1,2. This effect is typically observed in impurity doped electrooptic crystals. When the crystal is illuminated, charge carriers are excited ...
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Nonlinear Electro-Optical and Holographic Storage Effect in Fullerene-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal Film
There have been intense research interests in materials capable of recording holographic planar or volume gratings. These include inorganic [1] and polymeric [2] photorefractive crystals, liquid crystals [3–5]...
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Nonlinear Optical Processes and Applications in the Infrared with Nematic Liquid Crystals
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 o...