Photoelastic modulation polarimetry and its measurement of twisted nematic liquid crystal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4595, Issue , 2001, Pages 43-51

  Chao, Yu Faye ^a   Lin, Andv ^a   Wang, M W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Liquid crystal; Photoelastic modulation; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT MODULATORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOELASTICITY; STRAIN;

PHOTOELASTIC MODULATION POLARIMETRY;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 0035771464     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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