Combined blazed grating/Gires-Tournois resonator for liquid crystal beam switching

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 962-968

  Apter, Boris ^b   Efron, Uzi ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Fabry P rot resonator; Beam switching; Diffraction; Gires Tournois resonator; Liquid crystal (LC) devices; Optical switch

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SWITCHING; EMBEDDED BLAZED DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; LIQUID CRYSTAL BEAM SWITCHING;

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33751356586     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.862449     Document Type: Article

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