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Novel Techniques for Observing Structural Dynamics of Photoresponsive Liquid Crystals
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Phase conjugation at 193 nm

M C Gower

    Optics Letters
    |August 29, 2009
    PubMed
    Summary

    Researchers achieved 11% phase-conjugate reflectivity at 193 nm using stimulated Brillouin scattering with 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol. This novel optical mirror effectively corrects wavefront aberrations from ArF amplifiers.

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