Widely tunable nonlinear liquid crystal-based photonic crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4799, Issue , 2002, Pages 48-53

  Khoo, I C ^a   Zhang, Yana ^a   Diaz, A ^a   Ding, J ^a   Divliansky, I B ^b   Holliday, Kito ^b   Mayer, T S ^a   Crespi, V ^b   Scrymgeour, D ^b   Gopalan, V ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filters; Nonlinear liquid crystals; Photonic crystals; Super prism effect; Switches; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ENERGY GAP; INFILTRATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TRANSPARENCY;

NONLINEAR LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SUPERPRISM EFFECT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0036992483     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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