Two-beam optical bistability in nematic liquid crystals

E. SANTAMATO; G. ABBATE; P. MADDALENA; A. SASSO

International Quantum Electronics Conference
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1987),
paper THLL2

Two-beam optical bistability in nematic liquid crystals

E. SANTAMATO, G. ABBATE, P. MADDALENA, and A. SASSO

International Quantum Electronics Conference 1987

Baltimore, Maryland United States
26 April–1 May 1987
ISBN: 0-936659-51-3

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Nonlinear Optics in Liquid Crystals (THLL)

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E. SANTAMATO, G. ABBATE, P. MADDALENA, and A. SASSO, "Two-beam optical bistability in nematic liquid crystals," in International Quantum Electronics Conference, T. Hansch, D. Grischkowsky, D. Pritchard, and C. Shank, eds., Vol. 21 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1987), paper THLL2.

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Abstract

We investigated the occurrence of first-order Freedericksz transitions in a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal (LC) film when two p-polarized laser beams, impinging on the sample at oblique incidence, interact incoherently in the medium.

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