Resolution in optically addressed spatial light modulators based on dye-doped liquid crystals

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8889-8892

  Trushkevych, Oksana ^a   Collings, Neil ^a   Grassland, William A ^a   Wilkinson, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

DYE-DOPED LIQUID CRYSTALS; THICK DEVICES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33846226117     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008889     Document Type: Article

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