Electrically controllable liquid-crystal rotatable wave plate with variable phase retardation

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3552-3559

  Hirabayashi, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; HYSTERESIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

COMPENSATORS; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION CONTROL; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 20844456431     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003552     Document Type: Article

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