Preface | |
Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals | |
Thermotropic Liquid Crystals | p. 1 |
Building Blocks of Liquid Crystals | p. 6 |
Eutectic Mixtures | p. 11 |
Electronic Structures | p. 14 |
Experimental Methods for UV Measurement | p. 18 |
Polarized Absorption Spectrun | p. 22 |
Off-Resonance Absorption and Light Scattering | p. 51 |
IR Absorption | p. 60 |
Refractive Index Dispersions | p. 72 |
Electro-Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals | |
Liquid Crystal Alignment | p. 106 |
Optical Transmission of Liquid Crystal Cells | p. 125 |
Phase Compensation Methods for Widening Viewing Angle | p. 138 |
Dynamic Response | p. 148 |
Material Parameters for Electro-Optics | p. 168 |
Methods for Improving Response Times | p. 193 |
Polymer-Dispersed LC (PDLC) | p. 212 |
Polymer-Dispersed Chiral Liquid Crystal (PDCLC) | p. 231 |
Surface-Stabilized Ferroelectric LCs | p. 233 |
Soft-Mode FLCs | p. 241 |
Deformed Helix Ferroelectric Effect | p. 244 |
Twisted Smectic-C* Cell | p. 247 |
Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators | p. 250 |
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals | |
Isotropic Phase | p. 274 |
Nematic Phase | p. 282 |
Thermal and Density Effects in Liquid Crystals | p. 291 |
Visible-Infrared Thermal and Density Optical Nonlinearities | p. 303 |
Coupled Nonlinear Optics Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals | p. 315 |
Nonresonant Nonlinear Optical Effects in Smectic and Cholesteric Phases | p. 325 |
Electronic Optical Nonlinearities | p. 328 |
Nonlinear Optics | |
Susceptibility and Refractive Index | p. 354 |
General Nonlinear Polarization | p. 363 |
Coupled Maxwell Wave Equations | p. 370 |
Degenerate Optical Wave Mixing | p. 373 |
Nondegenerate Optical Wave Mixings; Harmonic Generations | p. 385 |
Self-Focusing and Self-Phase Modulation | p. 388 |
Nonlinear Optical Processes Observed in Liquid | p. 393 |
Index | p. 419 |
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