Reflective liquid-crystal displays with asymmetric incident and exit angles

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 966-977

  Ge, Zhibing ^a   Wu, Thomas X ^a   Zhu, Xinyu ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL BEHAVIORS; REFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 19944404257     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000966     Document Type: Article

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