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Laser-induced diffraction rings from a nematic-liquid-crystal film
Optics Letters
|August 28, 2009
Abstract:
Multiple diffraction rings appear as a cw laser beam passes through a homeotropic nematic film. The phenomenon is shown to be the result of spatial self-phase modulation that is due to the laser-induced Freedericksz transition.

