Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 924-932

  Barrick, George F ^a,b   Bos, Philip J ^b   Titus, Charles E ^b   Winker, Bruce K ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D optical modeling; Beam steering; Optical phased array; Two frequency liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRODES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LASER COMMUNICATION BEAM; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 2642570198     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1666821     Document Type: Article

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