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Acta Physica Sinica

STUDY OF DEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN DYE-DISSOLVING LIQUID CRYSTAL IN ITS NEMATIC PHASE

CHU GUI-YIN, ZHU HUA-NAN, ZHANG ZHI-GUO, Panming Fu, Peixian Ye, 中国科学院物理研究所

Published Jan 1, 1985• 0 citations
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Abstract

Degenerate four-wave mixing effect was studied in dye-dissolving liquid crystal iu its nematic phase. Thermal grating was generated after resonant absorption of light by the dye. The anisotropy of signal and thermal grating relaxation time were also studied.
DOI
10.7498/aps.34.421

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