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Measuring nonlinear absorption and refraction

C o f f e e b r e a k

Modeling complex optical phenomena by the use of bifrequency pendulum

C o f f e e b r e a k

Agile Liquid Crystal Optics - Applications From Free - Space to the Fiber Domain

W e l c o m e R e c e p t i o n

PL

Electro-Optical and Mechanical Devices Based on Liquid Crystal Systems

O

Tunable photonic crystals based on liquid crystals

O

Optical writing and erasing on liquid crystal cells by azimuthal anchoring control

O

Nematic order reconstruction: a novel fast textural switching mechanism

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Design and Fabrication of High-Performance Liquid Crystal Gratings

I

Policryps and Poliphem: a new class of composite liquid crystalline and polymeric materials for the realization of high performance Bragg gratings. First characterizations and comparisons.

O

FDTD Investigations of Periodic Director Patterns

O

Scattering in reflective HPDLC gratings

L u n c h b r e a k

I

Two-wave coupling during the formation of POLICRYPS diffraction gratings: Experimental results and theoretical model

I

Dynamic holography effects in liquid crystal panels

O

Energy transfer between laser beams due to recording of optical axis gratings in liquid crystals

O

Single-photon source for quantum information based on single dye molecules in liquid crystal host

C o f f e e b r e a k

O

Photovoltaic Effects: in View of Liquid Crystal Hybridized Cells

O

Hybrid liquid crystal and inorganic crystal photorefractives

O

Photovoltaic Switched Liquid Crystal Hybridized Cells

O

Photosensitive properties of hybrid polymer-liquid crystal structures doped with fullerenes and ferroelectric particles

D i n n e r

PL

Direction-Controllable Photodeformation of Liquid-Crystalline Network Films

O

Ferroelectric particles in liquid crystals: recent frontiers

O

Photoinduced phase separation controlled by liquid crystal grafted silica nano-particles

O

Polymer film with optically controlled form: Photoactuated azo-polymer

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Dielectric Dispersion and Fast Switching of Nematic Liquid Crystals

I

Transition Metal Dithiolene Near IR Dyes and their Applications in Liquid Crystal Devices

O

Nematic liquid crystal dispersion in the visible-near infrared range

O

Dopant-enhanced vertical alignment of lateral fluorinated liquid crystals

L u n c h b r e a k / E x h i b i t

I

Photobuffing of Azo-Based Self Assembled Monolayers

I

Electro-optic response in liquid crystal cells with electrically commanded alignment layers

O

Surface-charge photoelectric modulation phenomena in layer-structured liquid crystal device

O

Interactions between colloidal particles on 2D free-standing smectic films

C o f f e e b r e a k

O

Wavelength Hopping and Surface Anchoring Effects in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Lasers

O

Incident angle and polarization effects on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal lasers

O

Random Lasing and Weak Localization of Light in Nematic Liquid Crystals

D i n n e r

PL

Electrically Switchable, Mesoscale, Quasi-Crystal Structures with Five, Seven, and Nine-Fold Symmetry

O

Effect of randomness on optical diffraction properties of quasicrystal H-PDLC structures

O

Optics of cofined chiral liquid crystals influenced by surface anchoring and hysteresis phenomena

O

Isotropic Photonic Liquid Crystal -Multi lamellar Cubic-Sponge transition in Smectic Blue Phases

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Liquid crystal photonics: From birefringent micro-optics to photonic crystals

I

Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Data Storage and Laser Device Patterning

O

DFB Micro-Laser Array: Helixed Liquid Crystals Embedded in Holographically Sculptured Polymeric Microcavities

O

On the Twist Grain Boundary Phases in Liquid Crystals

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I N F O R M A T I O N

D I S P L A Y   A N D   P R O C E S S I N G

PL

Applications of Liquid Crystals to optical information processing and projection display

O

The photo-optics of an Azoxybenzene-based Liquid Crystal

O

New Low-Cost High Contrast Wide Viewing Angle MVA LCDs

O

Optimization and modeling of liquid crystal displays

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Discrete light propagation and self-localization in voltage-controlled arrays of channel waveguides in undoped nematic liquid crystals

I

Polarization optics of microstructured liquid crystal fibers

O

Interaction between a spatial optical soliton and a waveguide in nematic liquid crystals

O

Spatial solitons in twisted nematic layer

L u n c h b r e a k / E x h i b i t

O

Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals on the borderline for application: new materials, effects, physical views

O

Chiral dimesogens for photonics applications: Novel light driven phase transitions and the effect of smectic cybotactic domains in controlling the chiral reflections

O

Liquid Crystals for beam steering, switching, frequency filters and tunable negative index material development

O

Switchable Reversed Diffraction in Dye-Doped LC

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Measuring and monitoring optically induced thermal or reorientational non-locality in nematic liquid crystal

O

Chaotic rotations optically generated in a nematic liquid crystal film

O

Feedback-free hexagon pattern formation with liquid crystals and isotropic liquids

O

Optical Localized Structures in Liquid-Crystal-Light-Valve Experiments

D i n n e r

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PL

Switchable adaptive electro-optic eyewear

O

The Polarization Insensitive Microlens Array with Tuning Capability Based on a Liquid Crystal

O

Gradient polymer stabilized liquid crystal electrically tunable flat lens

O

Liquid crystal filter for polarization difference imaging

C o f f e e b r e a k

I

Modal Liquid Crystal Wavefront Correctors: Physics, Technology, Control and Applications

I

Acoustic realignment of nematic liquid crystals: Experiment and theory

O

The LCPDI: a Compact and Robust Phase Shifting Point Diffraction Interferometer based on Dye-Doped LC Technology

O

Wide tuning of ultraviolet-visible liquid crystal laser: several strategies and development

L u n c h b r e a k

I

Charged-mediated photo-orientation of liquid crystals

O

Enhancement of the nonlinear optical response in dye doped liquid crystals

O

Total Torque and Angular Momentum Conservation in Dye-doped Liquid Crystal Droplets

O

Orientational interaction of a light beam and NLCs subjected to external DC field

O

Hypothesis of dye aggregation in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: from experiment to a model of the enhanced light-director interaction

C o f f e e b r e a k

ALL INVITED: OLC Scientific Advisory Board Meeting planning for OLC 2007