Fast and high-contrast liquid-crystal shutters with low power consumption based on an optical-mode-interference cell

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4020-4025

  Xu, Peizhi ^a   Li, Xihua ^a   Chigrinov, V G ^a   Studentsov, S A ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Research and Development Institute Volga   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OPTICAL MODE INTERFERENCE (OMI); POWER CONSUMPTION; SUPERTWIST NEMATIC (STN); WAVEGUIDE MODE (TN);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33746139583     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004020     Document Type: Article

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