Determination of optical parameters of a twisted-nematic liquid crystal by phase-sensitive optical heterodyne interferometric ellipsometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 7509-7514

  Tsai, Chien Chung ^a   Chou, Chien ^a   Han, Chien Yuan ^b   Hsieh, Cheng Hung ^a   Liao, Kuo Yu ^a   Chao, Yu Faye ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOMETRY;

PHASE DETECTION; PHASE RETARDATION; POLARIZATION MODULATION; TWISTED-NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (TN-LC);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 30844472908     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007509     Document Type: Article

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