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11th International Topical Meeting on

Optics of Liquid Crystals

Marriott Suites Clearwater Beach on Sand Key, Florida, USA

P O S T E R   S E S S I O N  I  --  M o n d a y   O c t o b e r   3,  2 0 0 5.
Authors Abstract Title
Valentin Barna, Nicola Scaramuzza, Giuseppe Strangi, Andrei Th. Ionescu, Emil S. Barna, Anca-Luiza Alexe-Ionescu Fast Electro-Optic Switching In Nematic Liquid Crystals. Role Of Delocalized Electrons In Polyaniline – Nematogen Cyanobiphenyls Interaction.
Roberto Caputo, Antonio de Luca, Luciano De Sio, Alessandro Veltri, Andrey V. Sukhov, Cesare Umeton Optical feedback for vibration control in a holographic setup
Golshan Coleiny, Alexander Sergienko
Evaluation of Domain walls by defining periods as a function of electrode width in poling congruent lithium niobate
M. A. Ellabban, M. Fally, H. Uršič, I. Drevenšek-Olenik, M. Čopič Holographic scattering in H-PDLCs
Artur V. Galstyan, Gegham G. Zakharyan, Rafik S. Hakobyan The Theory of Light diffraction in thin anisotropic medium
T. Grudniewski, M. Sutkowski, J. Parka Memory effects in NLC cells used as a medium for holography
Soumendu Jana and Swapan Konar All Optical Switching in Media Possessing Cubic Quintic Nonlinearity
Eunje Jang, Hyoungwon Baac, Yeun-Tae Kim, and Sin-Doo Lee Electrically and optically controllable Liquid crystal grating with a surface-patterned command layer
Viacheslav Kubytskyi, Victor Reshetnyak, Tigran Galstian Diffraction efficiency of H-PDLC film composed of ellipsoidal liquid crystal droplets
Hakob Margaryan and Vladimir Aroutiounian Influence of longitudinal electric field on times characteristics of Frederick’s transition
F. Meghdadi, Th. B. Singh, M. Egginger, S. Guenes, N. Marijanovic, A. Montaigne, N. S. Sariciftchi and D.Meissner Highly oriented and nano-scale thin film based on small molecules for optoelectronic devices
A Mertelj and M. Čopič Anisotropic diffusion of light in PDLC
Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Dean P. Brown, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Richard L. Sutherland, Pam Lloyd, and Timothy J. Bunning Visible light initiated thiol-ene based reflection HPDLCs
S. Nersisyan, S. Serak, N. Tabiryan Gain Spectroscopy of Stimulated Light Scattering
Clementina Provenzano, Alfredo Mazzulla and Gabriella Cipparrone Applications of Polarization grating: Photopolarimeter and Spectrometer for CD.
Svitlana Pylypenko, Kateryna Artyushkova, Julia Fulghum, Olexander Buluy,Taras Prokopenko, Yuriy Reznikov Ion Beam Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystal on PPV-layer
V. Reshetnyak, A. Khizhnyak and T. J. Sluckin Diffraction efficiency and beam coupling in a liquid crystal cell subject to a light-induced modulation of the electric potential
Hakob Sarkissian, Chang Tsai, Boris Zeldovich, Nelson Tabirian, Sarik Nersisyan Numerical and Physical experiments on Orientational Stimulated Scattering in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Swati Shrivastava & S. Bhushan Electro-optical properties and nanocrystalline nature of semiconducting films
Augustine M Urbas, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi Natarajan and Richard Sutherland, Timothy Bunning Photo-optic polymer liquid crystal structures from interference lithography
Alessandro Veltri, Roberto Caputo, Andrej Sukhov, Cesare Umeton Model for photo-induced formation of permanent diffraction gratings in liquid crystalline composite materials.
L.M. Blinov, G. Cipparrone, A. Mazzula, C. Provenzano, M.I. Barnik, B.A. Umanskii, S.P. Palto

Electrically controlled polarization gratings through the liquid crystal replica
P O S T E R   S E S S I O N   I I  --  T u e s d a y   O c t o b e r   4,  2 0 0 5.
Authors Abstract Title
V. Barna, S. Ferjani, A. De Luca, R. Caputo, N. Scaramuzza, C. Versace, G. Strangi Band-Edge and Defect Modes Laser Action in Dye Doped Chiral LC Confined in Cylindrical Microcavities
V.A. Belyakov Low threshold DFB lasing in chiral LC at diffraction of pumping wave
W. Cao, A. Marino, G. Abbate, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri Lasing Thresholds of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Lasers
Denis Fedorenko, Olena Ouskova, Victor Reshetnyak and Yuriy Reznikov Light-Induced Anchoring in Mesophase of Dye-Doped Nematic
Sameh Ferjani, Valentin Barna, Antonio De Luca, Carlo Versace, Nicola Scaramuzza and Giuseppe Strangi Thermal Behaviour of Diffusive Lasing in Partially Ordered Nematic Liquid Crystals
Sebastian Gauza, Vicky Wen and Shin-Tson Wu Isothiocyanato-tolanes based high birefringence and fast response time mixtures for photonic applications
Igor Gvozdovskyy, Yuriy Kurioz and Yuri Reznikov Light-induced Changes of Surface Tension and Exposure Dependence of a Liquid Crystal Pretilt on Photoaligning Surface
U. Hrozhyk, S. Serak, N. Tabiryan Wide temperature range azobenzene nematic and smectic liquid crystals
Platon Korneychuk , Jessica Merlin, Mark Winkler, Yuri Reznikov, Kenneth Singer Optical Switching in Nematic Twist Cells
Jurij Kotar, Mojca Vilfan, Dušan Babič, and Igor Poberaj Comparison of optical and magnetic tweezers: study of inter-particle interactions in liquid crystals
Ju-Hyun Lee, Dong-Woo Kim, Chang-Jae Yu, Sin-Doo Lee, and Shin-Tson Wu Fast Phase Modulator Using Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for IR Applications
Carlo Manzo, Annunziata Savoia, Domenico Paparo, Lorenzo Marrucci Dynamics of Azobenzene Dyes in Langmuir Films Investigated by Surface Second Harmonic Generation
V. A. Meliksetyan, A.H. Arakelyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, S.R. Nersisyan The interface controlled effects in Semiconductor-LC structures
Xiangyi NIE, Thomas X. Wu , Yan-qing Lu,Yung-Hsun Wu, Xiao Liang, S. T. Wu Dual-Frequency Addressed Infrared Phase Modulator with Sub-millisecond Response
S.V. Pasechnik, V.G. Chigrinov, D.V. Shmeliova, I. Sh. Nasibullaev ,V.A. Tsvetkov, V.N. Kremenetsky, Liu Zhijian, A. V. Dubtsov Surface Dynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystals at Weak Surface Anchoring
V.V.Presnyakov, I.Chabot, É.Knystautas, T.V.Galstian IR study of liquid crystal alignment in oblique polymer micropores
V.Yu.Reshetnyak, S.Shelestyuk, A.G.Iljin, V.V.Yarmolenko Surface director gliding caused by competition between chiral pitch mismatch and anchoring
S.V. Shiyanovskii, Yu. A. Nastishin, H. Liu, T. Schneider, V. Nazarenko, R. Vasyuta, and O.D. Lavrentovich Optical properties of the nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Maxim G. Tomilin LC vision as a new tool for microscopic surface analysis of materials
Ying Zhou, Yuhua Huang, Alexandra Rapaport, Michael Bass, and Shin-Tson Wu Experimental Investigation of laser emission properties of dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals with a cholesteric liquid crystal reflector
   
P O S T E R   S E S S I O N  I I I  --  W e d n e s d a y   O c t o b e r   5,  2 0 0 5.
Authors Abstract Title
Elena V. Aksenova - Vadim P. Romanov , Alexey Yu. Val'kov Propagation and Scattering of Light in Twist-cells of Liquid Crystals with Large Pitch
Nadia Baranova, Hakob Sarkissian, Boris Zeldovich, Nelson Tabiryan Longitudinally modulated nematic bandgap structure
U. Bortolozzo, S.Residori Optical structures in photorefractive liquid crystal light valves
G. Chilaya, A. Chanishvili, G. Petriashvili -,R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, M. P. De Santo, M. A.Matranga ,P. Collings Light Control of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Using Azoxy-based Host Materials
Igor Gvozdovskyy, Irina Terenetskaya, Viktor Reshetnyak, Natalia Gvozdovska Effect of the Single Crystal Rotation of Chiral Compounds at the Nematic Droplet
Rafik S. Hakobyan, Garegin L. Yesayan, Boris. Ya. Zeldovich Thermomechanical Oscillations in Hybrid Oriented Nematic Liquid Crystals
Vera Ilyina and Svitlana Subota Numerical study of liquid crystal-induced optical singularities
Mykhaylo Ledney Influence of Flexoelectricity on Correlations of Thermal Director Fluctuations in Filled Liquid Crystals
Mykhaylo Ledney Spatially Periodic Orientational Instability in Planar Nematic Cell
Jun Li, Sebastian Gauza, and Shin-Tson Wu, Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Jesper Lægsgaard and Anders Biarklev High temperature-gradient refractive index liquid crystals and their applications in a highly thermal tunable photonic bandgap fiber
Svetlana G. Lukishova and Ansgar W. Schmid Near-field optical microscopy of cholesteric oligomeric liquid crystal layers
M. F. Moreira, W. Cao, B. Taheri, and P. Palffy-Muhoray Whispering-Gallery Mode Lasing in a Dye-doped Nematic Liquid Crystal Filled Fiber
Elena Ouskova, Yuriy Kurioz, Olexander Kurochkin, Olexander Tereshchenko,and Yuri Reznikov, Dong-Hoon Kim, Seo-Kyu Park and Soon-Bum Kwon Light-controlled alignment of cholesteric liquid crystals on photosensitive material
V. Reshetnyak, S. Shelestyuk and T. J. Sluckin Freedericksz transition threshold in nematic liquid crystal filled with ferroelectric nano-particles
H. Sarkissian, J.B. Park, B. Ya. Zeldovich, N. V. Tabirian Liquid crystal structure with transverse periodic alignment
Yasuhiro Sato, Rumiko Yamaguchi, and Susumu Sato Three dimensional liquid crystal alignment control on crosslinkable polymer by plasma surface modification
S. Serak, U. Hrozhyk, N. Tabiryan Phototunable Photonic Bandgap Structures
Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Rajiv Manohar, J. P. Shukla Refractive Indices, Order Parameter and Principal Polarizability of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals and Their Homogeneous Mixtures
Rumiko Yamaguchi, Junji Kimura and Susumu Sato Voltage induced fluorescent color change in liquid crystal cell
Bao-Yan Zhang Textures and Selective Reflection of Blue Phases of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymers
O. Yaroshchuk, R. Kravchuk Bifunctional LCD films
P O S T E R   S E S S I O N   I V  --  T h u r s d a y   O c t o b e r   6,  2 0 0 5.
Authors Abstract Title
R. B. Alaverdyan, L.S. Aslanyan, V. Margaryan, E. A. Santrosyan, Yu.S. Chilingaryan Dynamics of Frederics Transition in an Oscillating Electric Field
L.S. Aslanyan Nematic Liquid Cristall Director Reorientationby Sequances of Rectangular Electric Pulses: The Accumulation Phenomenon.
Ivan Budagovsky, Valentina Kitaeva, Aleksandr Zolot’ko, and Mikhail Smayev Light self-action in NLCs with orientational and thermal nonlinearities
Antonio De Luca, Alessandro Veltri, Luigia Pezzi, Cesare Umeton Experimental and theoretical characterization of reorientational effects in saturable Kerr-like media
Rafik S. Hakobyan, Karine M. Sargsyan , Nelson V. Tabirian Jump-like light-induced hydrodynamic reorientation of LC’s caused by direct volume expansion
U. Hrozhyk, S. Serak, N. Tabiryan Steering light through photoinduced reconfigurable waveguiding channel in azobenzene liquid crystals
Vera Ilyina, Timothy J. Sluckin and Simon J. Cox Self-consistent approach to optical Freedericksz transition
I. Lazo-Martínez, I. Guizar Iturbide, R. Ramos Garcia, M. Boffety Collosal nonlinear optical effect in dye doped
liquid crystal
Yi-Hsin Lin, Hongwen Ren, Sebastian Gauza, Yung-Hsun Wu, and Shin-Tson Wu High contrast and fast response polarization-independent reflective display using a dye-doped dual-frequency liquid crystal gel
Ruibo Lu, Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, Thomas X. Wu Fast Response and Wide Viewing Angle Multi-domain In-Plane Switching LCD
Jae Hong Park, Iam Choon Khoo Liquid crystal beam steering device with a photopolymer prism
Victor M. Pergamenshchik, Vassili G. Nazarenko, Vladimir Ya. Gayvoronski,Sergej B. Jakunin, and Roman B. Vasjuta The model of the enhanced light-induced director reorientation based on the hypothesis of dye aggregation in a nematic liquid crystal
Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Svitlana L. Subota and Tigran V. Galstian Theoretical analysis of the electric field control of focal length in a gradient polymer stabilized liquid crystal lens
Andriy Shevchenko, Scott C. Buchter, Antti Hakola, Matti Kaivola , Nelson V. Tabiryan Laser beam shaping using self-focusing in a nematic liquid crystal
Mikhail Smayev, Alexandr Zolot’ko, Valentina Kitaeva , and Mikhail Barnik Analysis of Hysteresis Phenomena in Planar NLCs Affected by a Light Beam
Haiying Wang, Xiangyi Nie, Thomas X. Wu, and Shin-Tson Wu Cell Gap Effect on the Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Phase Modulators
Yung-Hsun Wu, Yi-Hsin Lin, Ju-Hyun Lee, Hongwen Ren, Xiangyi Nie and Shin-Tson Wu Axially-symmetric sheared polymer network liquid crystals and applications
Xinyu Zhu, Zhibing Ge, and Shin-Tson Wu Extended Jones matrix representation for biaxial film compensated liquid crystal displays
Jerzy Zieliński and Marek Olifierczuk Color liquid crystal display – problems and optimalization procedure
Alexandr Zolot’ko, Anatoly Averyushkin, Valentina Kitaeva , Andrey Lobanov, Vladimir Ochkin, Mikhail Smayev, Alexei Vitukhnovsky and Mikhail Barnik Nonlinear-optical properties of high-molecular-polymer-doped nematic