Threshold degenerate wave mixing in dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals.
We report what is to our knowledge the first observation of nonlinear light diffraction in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals. The superposition with the self-transparency effect produces a threshold in the observed wave-mixing phenomenon.
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