Tunable all-optical switching in periodic structures with liquid-crystal defects

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2839-2844

  Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Pinkevych, Igor ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SILICON;

FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITION; LIQUID-CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 33645499883     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002839     Document Type: Article

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