Calculation of the efficiency of polarization-insensitive surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid-crystal diffraction gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2257-2263

  Brown, Carl V ^a   Kriezis, Emmanouil E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIGHT DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0042973817     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002257     Document Type: Article

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