Optical diffraction gratings from polymer-dispersed liquid crystals switched by interdigitated electrodes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6207-6212

  Drevensek Olenik I ^a,b   Sousa, M E ^c   Crawford, G P ^c   Copic M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERDIGITATED ELECTRODES; LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYERS; MULTILAYER-BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33747364156     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1807027     Document Type: Article

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