Nano-, pico- and femtosecond study of fullerene-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: holographic recording and optical limiting effect

In the fullerene-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) the holographic recording and optical limiting (OL) effect have been established to be intermediate between those for fullerene-doped liquid crystals and for fullerene-doped polymers. It has been shown that fullerene-doped PDLCs could be applied for OL at the incident laser power of 0.3–0.4 J cm−2. They can be used as effective diffractive optical elements.