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Nonlinear Fiber Core Liquid and Nematic Liquid Crystal Film for Wide Temporal Bandwidth Optical Limiting Application
Nonlinear absorption processes in an extremely nonlinear optical fiber core liquid, and recently observed supra-optical-nonlinearity in dopant modified nematic liquid crystals, are discussed in the context of ...
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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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Liquid Crystals for Fast Infrared Laser Switching and Optical Limiting Application
We present the results of several experimental studies of infrared[IR] nonlinear optical responses of aligned nematic liquid crystals, including laser induced molecular reorientation, density-, thermal- and or...
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Nonlinear Optical Fiber Core Materials For Optical Limiting Application
Several liquid phase liquid crystals and liquids are found to possess broadband nonlinear absorption characteristics suitable for optical limiting applications. Using these liquids as fiber waveguiding cores, ...
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Photorefractivity and Holographic Storage Effect in Fullerene C60-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystals
The results of a recent study of a nonlinear electro-optical effect in fullerene C6o-doped nematic liquid crystal film are presented. In particular, photo-induced conduction, self diffraction effect, and permanen...
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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 propagation and self-limiting effect in liquid-crystalline fibers
The nonlinear optical properties of the isotropic phase of liquid crystals induced by nanosecond laser pulses are analyzed in the context of nonlinear multi-mode propagation in a liquid-crystal-cored fiber. Th...
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Optical Limiting with Liquid Crystalline Cylindrical Guided Wave Optical Elements
Using micro-capillaries and capillary arrays, we have fabricated dye- and C60-doped liquid crystal cored fibers and image transmission plates of various core diameters and lengths. We have observed nonlinear puls...
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Liquid Crystal Nonlinear Optics
Liquid crystals occupy a very important and unique place in current research and development efforts in various display and electro-optical devices. Research conducted in the last decade has also shown that th...
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Nonlocal radial dependence of laser-induced molecular reorientation in a nematic liquid crystal: theory and experiment
We present a detailed theoretical calculation, with experimental verification, of the nonlocal molecular reorientation of the nematic-liquid-crystal director axis induced by a cw Gaussian laser beam. The natur...
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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...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fluorescence Spectrum from a Three-Level Atom Interacting with a Monochromatic and Broadband Laser
The fluorescence spectrum emitted from a three-level atom interacting with two strong resonant fields has received considerable attention. The three-level atom in the ladder-type configuration has been studied...
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Theory of Quantum Beats and Emission Dynamics from Molecules
The theory and experimental study of molecular emission is of fundamental and applied significance. New interesting problems arise as more state-of-the-art technique for producing molecules in well isolated st...