High birefringence liquid crystals for photonic applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5947, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-14

  Gauza, S ^a   Wen, C H ^a   Wu, S T ^a   Dabrowski, R ^b   Hsu, C S ^c   Catanescu, C O ^d   Chien, L C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual frequency; High birefringence; Nematic liquid crystals; Photonic applications; Response time

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; EUTECTICS; LASER BEAMS; MIXTURES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DUAL-FREQUENCY; PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; RESPONSE TIME;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 32144436753     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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