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Original Articles

The Orientational Optical Non-linearity of Liquid Crystals. I. Nematics

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Pages 237-250 | Received 25 Feb 1980, Published online: 21 Mar 2007
 

Abstract

The optical non-linearity of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) is considered. The strongest effect studied is due to the local turn of NLC director. The possibility of wavefront conjugation by four-wave interaction in a NLC is considered. Strong effects of self-focusing in a NLC due to the orientational mechanism of non-linearity are predicted.

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