An first-class expert reference and improved upper-level pupil textual content, Liquid Crystals, moment version is a complete therapy of the entire easy ideas underlying the original actual and optical houses of liquid crystals. Written by way of an across the world recognized pioneer within the nonlinear optics of liquid crystals, the ebook additionally offers a special, in-depth dialogue of the mechanisms and theoretical ideas at the back of all significant nonlinear optical phenomena happening in liquid crystals.

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• Basic physics and optical homes of liquid crystals
• Nematics, in addition to different mesophases similar to smectics, ferroelectrics, and cholesterics
• Fundamentals of liquid crystals for electro-optics, and exhibit and non-display similar applications
• Various theoretical and computational recommendations utilized in describing optical propagation via liquid crystals and anisotropic materials
• Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals, together with up-to-date literature stories and basic discussions

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