Abstract
An elliptically polarized cw laser beam propagating in a nematic liquid-crystal film can induce molecular reorientation and lead the system through various dynamic regimes: torsional oscillations, precession, nutation with precession, and others.
- Received 27 December 1989
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1377
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