Transverse-magnetic nonlinear modes in a nematic liquid-crystal slab waveguide

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1536-1541

  Abbate, G ^a   De Stefano, L ^a   Santamato, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONTINUATION METHOD; GUIDED LIGHT POWER; OPTICAL FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITIONS; SELF CONFINEMENT; TORQUE EQUATION; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0030195737     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.001536     Document Type: Article

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