Professor Iam-Choon Khoo

Representative Publications:

Books
1. Author – Liquid Crystals 2nd Edition (Wiley, NY Scheduled Publication Date 1/2007).
2. Author - Liquid Crystals: Physical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (Wiley, NY, November 1995).
3. Co-author - Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals (World Scientific Publishing Inc., NJ, May 1993).
4. Co-editor - Novel Optical Materials and Applications (Wiley, NY, 1996).
5. Editor - Liquid Crystals I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X [‘97, ‘98, ‘99, ’00, ’01, ’02, ’03, ‘04, ’05, ‘06] – Proceedings of SPIE- Int. Society on Optical Engineering.
Journal Papers
1. Observation of orientational photorefractive effects in nematic liquid crystals. I. C. Khoo, H. Li, and Y. Liang, Optics Letts, 19, 1723 (1994).
2. Self-starting phase conjugation with cross-polarization stimulated orientational scattering in liquid crystal. I.C. Khoo and Yu Liang, Optics Letters, 20, 130 (1995).
3. Holographic grating formation in dye- and fullerene C60-doped nematic liquid crystal film. I. C. Khoo, Optics Letters, 20, 2137 (1996).
4. Orientational photorefractive effects in nematic liquid crystal film. I. C. Khoo, IEEE J. Quantum Electronics JQE 32, pp. 525-534 (1996).
5. Coherent beam amplification with photorefractive liquid crystal. I. C. Khoo, Brett D. Guenther, M. V. Wood, P. Chen and Min-Yi Shih, Opt. Lett. 22,1229 (1997).
6. I.C. Khoo, S. Slussarenko, B. D. Guenther and W. V. Wood, “Optically Induced Space Charge Fields, DC Voltage, and Extraordinarily Large Nonlinearity in Dye-doped Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Opt. Letts 23, pp 253 - 255 (1998).
7. I. C. Khoo, M. V. Wood, B. D. Guenther, Min-Yi Shih, P. H. Chen, Zhaogen Chen and Xumu Zhang, “Liquid Crystal Film and Nonlinear Optical Liquid Cored Fiber Array for ps-cw Frequency Agile Laser Optical Limiting Application”. Optics Express, Vol. 2, no. 12.pp 471-82, (1998)
8. I. C. Khoo, M. V. Wood, M. Y. Shih and P. H. Chen, “Extremely Nonlinear Photosensitive Liquid Crystals for Image Sensing and Sensor Protection,” Optics Express, Vol. 4, no. 11, pp 431-442 (1999)
9. I. C. Khoo, P. H. Chen, M. V. Wood, and Min-Yi Shih, “ Molecular photonics of a highly nonlinear organic fiber core liquid for picosecond -nanosecond optical limiting effect”, Chemical Physics Vol. 245, pp. 517-531(1999).
10. I. C. Khoo, Min-Yi Shih, M. V. Wood, B. D. Guenther, and P. H. Chen, F. Simoni, S. Slussarenko*, O. Francescangeli, L. Lucchetti“Dye-doped photorefractive liquid crystals for dynamic and storage holographic grating formation and spatial light modulation” Invited Paper - IEEE Proceedings Special Issue on Photorefractive Optics: Materials, Devices and Applications. IEEE Proceedings Vol. 87, no. 11, pp 1897 – 1911 (1999).
11. M. Y. Shih, I. C. Khoo, A. Shishido, M. V. Wood, P. H. Chen, “All-Optical Image Processing with A Supra Nonlinear Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Film”, Opt. Letts. 25, 978-980 (2000).
12. I. C. Khoo and Y. Liang, “Stimulated Orientational and Thermal Scatterings and Self-Starting Optical Phase Conjugation with Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Phys. Rev. E62, pp 6722 –6733 (2000)
13. I. C. Khoo, P. H. Chen, M. Y. Shih, A. Shishido, S. Slussarenko, “Supra Optical Nonlinearities of Methyl-Red and Azobenzene Liquid Crystal –doped Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 358, 1-13 [2001]
14. I. C. Khoo, A. Diaz, M. V. Wood and P. H. Chen , “Passive optical limiting of picosecond – nanosecond lasers using highly nonlinear organic liquid cored fiber array,” IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 760-768 (2001).
15. I. C. Khoo, J. Ding, A. Diaz, Y. Zhang and K. Chen, “Recent studies of optical limiting, image processing and near-infrared nonlinear optics with nematic liquid crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 375, pp. 33-44 (2002).
16. G. Assanto, M. Peccianti, C. Umeton, A. De Luca and I. C. Khoo, “Coherent and incoherent spatial solitons in bulk nematic liquid crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 375, pp 617-629 (2002).
17. Malgosia Kaczmarek, Min-Yi Shih, Roger S. Cidney and I. C. Khoo, “Electrically tunable, optically induced dynamic and permanent gratings in dye-doped liquid crystals”, IEEE J. Quantum Electronics 38, pp 451-457 (2002).
18. I. C. Khoo and J. Ding, “All-optical cw laser polarization conversion at 1.55 micron by two beam coupling in nematic liquid crystal film,” Appl. Phys. Letts. 81, pp. 2496-2498 (2002).
19. I. C. Khoo, J. Ding, Y. Zhang, K. Chen and A. Diaz, “Supra-Nonlinear Photorefractive Response of Single-wall Carbon Nanotube- and C60-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystas81,” Appl. Phys. Letts. 82, pp. 3587-3589 (2003).
20. I.C. Khoo and A. Diaz, “Nonlinear dynamics in laser polarization conversion by stimulated scattering in nematic liquid crystal films,” Phys. Rev. E68 pp 042701-1 to -4 [2003]
21. I.C. Khoo, Andres Diaz and J. Ding, “Nonlinear-absorbing Fiber Array for Large Dynamic Range Optical Limiting Application against Intense Short Laser Pulses, J. Opt. Soc. Am B21, pp. 1234-1240 [2004].
22. I. C. Khoo, Jianwu Ding, and Andres Diaz, “Dynamics of Cross-polarization Stimulated Orientation Scattering in Nematic Liquid Crystal Film,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, pp. 844-851 [2005]
23 I. C. Khoo, Kan Chen and Y. Zhang Williams, “Orientational Photorefractive Effect in undoped and CdSe Nano-Rods doped Nematic Liquid Crystal – Bulk and Interface Contributions,” IEEE J. Selcted Topics in Quantum Electronics JSTQE 12 (3), pp. 443-450 [2006].
24 E. Graugnard, J. S. King, S. Jain, C. J. Summers, Y. Zhang-Williams and I. C. Khoo, Electric field tuning of the Bragg peak in large-pore TiO2 inverse shell opals,” Phys. Rev. B72, 233105 (2005).
25 I. C. Khoo, D. H. Werner, X. Liang, A. Diaz and B. Weiner, “Nano-sphere dispersed liquid crystals for tunable negative-zero-positive index of refraction in the optical and Terahertz regimes,” Optics Letts. 31, 2592 (2006).

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