An essential difference between dielectric mirrors and chiral mirrors

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-64

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Chiral mirror; Cholesteric liquid crystal; Dielectric mirror; Sculptured thin film

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL MIRRORS; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MIRRORS; THIN FILMS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 27644441152     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.21082     Document Type: Article

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