title: Self-pulsing of the laser light transmitted by a nonlinear liquid-crystal interface near the phase transition.
abstract: We report bistability and self-pulsing effects in the switching from total internal reflection to a transmitting state at a glass-liquid-crystal interface. The role of the phase transition to the isotropic state is underlined, and the generation of 20-msec pulses from a continuous laser beam is observed.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Simoni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cipparrone
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Umeton
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Khoo