Optical vortices generated by dislocations in a cholesteric liquid crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 317-319

  Voloschenko, D ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVE FRONTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFRACTION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; VORTEX FLOW;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0042470521     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000317     Document Type: Article

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