Switchable gratings by spatially periodic alignment of liquid crystals via patterned photopolymerization

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 652-654

  Zhou, Jian ^a   Collard, David M ^a   Srinivasarao, Mohan ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMONOMERS; POLYMER MATRIX; SWITCHABLE GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IRRADIATION; MONOMERS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644915854     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000652     Document Type: Article

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