Electrically switchable and optically rewritable reflective Fresnel zone plate in dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14078-14085

  Cheng, Ko Ting ^a   Liu, Cheng Kai ^a   Ting, Chi Lun ^a   Fuh, Andy Ying Guey ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SWITCHING;

BINARYAMPLITUDE STRUCTURES; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCE; FRESNEL ZONE PLATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 35348961575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014078     Document Type: Article

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