Abstract
Abstarct The experimental evidence of laser-induced collective rotation of the molecules of a nematic liquid crystal is presented. The effect is shown to have resulted by angular momentum transfer from the light to the medium.
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Volume 143, 1987 - Issue 1
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