Light propagation through alignment-patterned liquid crystal gratings

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 375, Issue , 2002, Pages 491-500

  Scharf, Toralf ^a   Bohley, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anisotropic gradient index media; Finite difference time domain method; Light propagation; Liquid crystal gratings

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; THIN FILMS;

ANISOTROPIC GRADIENT INDEX MEDIA; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; LIQUID CRYSTAL GRATINGS; MATRIX OPTICS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 11144248852     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250210589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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