Thermal grating-mediated wave mixing and beam amplification in nematic liquid crystal thin films

Orientational Optical Nonlinearity of Liquid Crystals

1986 • 445 citations

Thermal diffusion measurements using spatially periodic temperature distributions induced by laser light

1973 • 212 citations

The mechanism and dynamics of transient thermal grating diffraction in nematic liquid crystal films

1985 • 104 citations

Optically induced molecular reorientation and third-order nonlinear optical processes in nematic liquid crystals

1981 • 88 citations

Exact solution of a nonlinear model of two-wave mixing in Kerr media

1986 • 64 citations

II Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals

1988 • 62 citations

Nanosecond-laser-induced optical wave mixing and ultrasonic wave generation in the nematic phase of liquid crystals

1984 • 53 citations

Submillisecond grating diffractions in nematic liquid crystal films

1983 • 48 citations

Low-power (106-μm) laser-beam amplification by thermal-grating-mediated degenerate four-wave mixing in a nematic liquid-crystal film

1988 • 43 citations

Phase conjugation with gain at CO2 laser line μl = 10.6 μm from thermally induced gratings in nematic liquid crystals

1986 • 36 citations

Wavefront conjugation in nematic liquid crystal films

1982 • 35 citations

Probe beam amplification via two- and four-wave mixings in a nematic liquid crystal film

1987 • 24 citations

Wave front conjugation with gain and self-oscillation with a nematic liquid-crystal film

1985 • 17 citations

Nonlinear Optical Effects in the Nematic Phase

1985 • 15 citations

Probe beam amplification via degenerate optical wave mixing in a Kerr medium

1987 • 12 citations

Nonlinear Optical Effects in the Nematic Phase

1985 • 5 citations

Phase Conjugation with Light of Reduced Spatial Coherence

1984 • 4 citations