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An Approach to the Design of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals with Large Second Order Electronic Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility

David M. Walba Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0215
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M. Blanca Ros Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0215
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Noel A. Clark Department of Physics and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0390
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Renfan Shao Department of Physics and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0390
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Kristina M. Johnson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0425
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Michael G. Robinson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0425
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J. Y. Liu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0425
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David Doroski Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0425
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Pages 51-60 | Received 20 Aug 1990, Published online: 24 Sep 2006

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