Modeling of a biased liquid-crystal capillary waveguide

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1843-1851

  Lægsgaard, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POISSON EQUATION; TENSORS;

BIASED CAPILLARY TUBE; ELASTIC FREE ENERGY; LIQUID-CRYSTAL CAPILLARY WAVEGUIDE; LIQUID-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33749592383     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001843     Document Type: Article

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