Liquid crystal devices for photonics applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6781, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chigrinov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fiber optical devices; Liquid crystals; Modeling software; Photoalignment; Photonic crystal; Switches

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

OPERATING VOLTAGES; PASSIVE MATRIX; PHOTONIC WAVELENGTH;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 42549087813     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.740138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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