On the fringing-field effect in liquid-crystal beam-steering devices

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-19

  Apter, Boris ^a   Efron, Uzi ^a,b   Bahat Treidel, Eldad ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BEAM STEERING DEVICES; FRINGING FIELD EFFECT;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0346007967     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000011     Document Type: Article

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