Controllable polarization splitting in liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6128, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alagappan, G ^a   Sun, X W ^a   Yu, M B ^b   Shum, P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DISPERSIONS; GRAPH THEORY; INFILTRATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

DISPERSION CURVES; INFILTRATED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPTIC AXIS; POLARIZATION SPLITTING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745586019     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.645969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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