Polarization-insensitive tunable liquid crystal Fabry-Perot filter incorporating polymer liquid crystal waveplates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3475, Issue , 1998, Pages 152-162

  Morita, Yoriko ^a   Johnson, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabry Perot filter; Jones matrix; Nematic liquid crystal; Passivation layer; Polarization insensitivity; Polymer liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; TUNING;

FABRY-PEROT FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0037738689     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.326901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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