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Opticals Effects in Liquid Crystals

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. István Jánossy

    1. Budapest, Hungary

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Part of the book series: Perspectives in Condensed Matter Physics (PCMP, volume 5)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • István Jánossy
      Pages 1-27

  3. Reprinted Articles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Rotatory Power and Other Optical Properties of Certain Liquid Crystals

      • Hl. de Vries
      Pages 31-38

    3. Reflection and Transmission by Single-Domain Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Films: Theory and Verification

      • Dwight W. Berreman, Terry J. Scheffer
      Pages 39-49

    4. Light Propagation in Anisotropic Stratified Media in the Quasi Adiabatic Limit

      • P. Allia, C. Oldano, L. Trossi
      Pages 50-62

    5. Pseudo-Stokes parameter representation of light propagation in layered inhomogeneous uniaxial media in the geometric optics approximation

      • E. Santamato, Y. R. Shen
      Pages 63-66

    6. Study of Phase-Matched Normal and Umklapp Third-Harmonic- Generation Processes in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

      • J. W. Shelton, Y. R. Shen
      Pages 67-82

    7. Optical Second Harmonic Generation in Various Liquid Crystalline Phases

      • M. I. Barnik, L. M. Blinov, A. M. Dorozhkin, N. M. Shtykov
      Pages 83-94

    8. Phase-synchronous optical second-harmonic generation in a ferroelectric liquid crystal

      • M. I. Barnik, L. M. Blinov, N. M. Shtykov
      Pages 95-96

    9. The Orientational Mechanism of Nonlinearity and the Self-Focusing of He-Ne Laser Radiation in Nematic Liquid Crystal Mesophase (Theory and Experiment)

      • N. F. Pilipetski, A. V. Sukhov, N. V. Tabiryan, B. Ya. Zel’Dovich
      Pages 97-101

    10. The effect of an optical field on the nematic phase of the liquid crystal OCBP

      • A. S. Zolot’ko, V. F. Kitaeva, N. Kroo, N. N. Sobolev, L. Chillag
      Pages 102-106

    11. Optical-Field-Induced Birefringence and Freedericksz Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

      • S. D. Durbin, S. M. Arakelian, Y. R. Shen
      Pages 107-110

    12. Fredericks transitions induced by light fields

      • B. Ya. Zel’dovich, N. V. Tabiryan, Yu. S. Chilingaryan
      Pages 111-124

    13. The Influence of the Finite Size of the Light Spot on the Laser Induced Reorientation of Liquid Crystals

      • L. Csillag, I. Jánossy, V. F. Kitaeva, N. Kroo, N. N. Sobolev
      Pages 125-135

    14. Nonlocal radial dependence of laser-induced molecular reorientation in a nematic liquid crystal: theory and experiment

      • I. C. Khoo, T. H. Liu, P. Y. Yan
      Pages 136-141

    15. Reorientation of Liquid Crystals by Superposed Optical and Quasistatic Electric Fields

      • L. Csillag, N. Éber, I. Jánossy, N. Kroó, V. F. Kitaeva, N. N. Sobolev
      Pages 142-148

    16. External field enhanced optical bistability in nematic liquid crystals

      • Hiap Liew Ong
      Pages 149-151

    17. Observation of optical field induced first-order electric Freedericksz transition and electric bistability in a parallel aligned nematic liquid-crystal film

      • J. J. Wu, Gan-Sing Ong, Shu-Hsia Chen
      Pages 152-154

    18. Undamped oscillations of NLC director in the field of an ordinary light wave

      • A. S. Zolot’ko, V. F. Kitaeva, N. Kroo, N. N. Sobolev, A. P. Sukhorukov, V. A. Troshkin et al.
      Pages 155-157
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In 1988 physicists and chemists commemorated the centenary of the discovery of the first liquid crystals. Fora long period after this discovery, although many significant results were found, liquid crystal research remained a marginal topic of condensed matter physics. The situation changed in the sixties. At that time the remarkable electro-optical properties of liquid crystals were recognized and found soon widespread application in numeric displays. From a more fundamental point of view, the interest in disordered systems. increased in general at the same time. Liquid crystals represented an important dass of such systems. Among others, phase transitions, hydrodynamics and topological defects occurring in them attracted considerable attention. The connection between the liquid-crystalline state and the structure of biological membranes stimulated a Iot of works also. In the present volume we discuss a relatively new and rapidly developing branch of the fi. eld, namely nonlinear optical effects in liquid crystals. Optical studies have always played a signifi. cant role in liquid crystal science. Research of optical nonlinearities in liquid crystals began at the end of the sixties. Since then it became a powerful tool in the investigation of symmetry properties, interfacial phenomena or dynamic behaviour. Furthermore, several new aspects of nonlinear processes were demonstrated and studied extensively in liquid crystals. The subject covered in this book is therefore of importance both for liquid crystal research and for nonlinear optics itself. The term "nonlinear optics" is used here in a broad sense.

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  • Budapest, Hungary

    István Jánossy

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