Visible-infrared Optical Wave Mixings and Nonlinear         Processes with Liquid Crystals
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The objective of this research program is to further explore and        exploit the extraordinarily large optical nonlinearities of liquid              crystals for novel nonlinear optical processes and applications.                Recent studies by the PI have confirmed the possibilities of utilizing          the orientational and thermal nonlinearities in optical wave front              conjugation with gains, beam amplifications and other real-time                 adaptive processes such as ring and self-oscillations and laser                 intensity switching, for visible as well as infrared lasers.  Phase             locking of lasers, speckle noise-free phase conjugation, image                  correlations and convolutions have also shown to be feasible.                   The proposed studies will include the development of detailed theories          for some new fundamental aspects of these wave mixing results (e.g.,            beam and image amplification in a Kerr medium, multi-beam interactions          with diffusive-type nonlinearities, self-oscillations in phase                  conjugations) and parallel detailed experimental measurements and               documentations of these processes.  It is anticipated that several              important theories, concepts, and useful visible-far infrared                   nonlinear optical imaging, optical processing and adaptive optic                devices will emerge from these studies.
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