The ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

Liquid crystals occupy an important niche in nonlinear optics as a result of their unique
physical and optical properties. Besides their broadband birefringence and transparency …

For many years, considerable research efforts have been directed toward exploring the
interaction between light and matter for the prospective replacement of electronic devices …

We report on the first, to the best of our knowledge, studies of photorefraction in nematic
liquid crystal (LC) doped with nanoferroelectric particles. We found the strong enhancement …

Supra-nonlinear photorefractive response of C/sub 60/ and single-wall carbon nanotube-doped
nematic liquid crystal Page 1 CFK6 Supra-Nonlinear Photorefractive Response of C60 and …

Diffraction gratings were studied in cells of the homogeneously aligned liquid-crystal E7
doped with multiwall carbon nanotubes. These phase gratings were induced by interference …

▪ Abstract A review of the field of photorefractive liquid crystals is presented. The first reports
of photorefractive liquid crystals occurred in 1994, and the performance of these materials …

In the work, we revisited the orientational photorefractive effect generated in nematic liquid
crystal (NLC) in a degenerate four-wave mixing interaction configuration. A detailed …

Surface-mediated director reorientation in a pure nematic liquid crystal (LC) cell in the
presence of both a dc and low-power optical field has been observed. A surface-dependent …

We report a study of diffraction gratings observed in planar cells of nematic mixture
(cyanobiphenyl and cyanotriphenyl derivatives, E7) made with different aligning substrates …