Wave guiding with liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6487, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Desmet, Hans ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Non linearity; Solitons; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; GLASS FIBERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SOLITONS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

DATA TRANSPORT; NON LINEARITY; WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH FILTERING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34248667605     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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