POLICRYPS structures as switchable optical phase modulators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7619-7624

  De Sio, L ^a   Tabiryan, N ^b   Caputo, R ^a   Veltri, A ^a   Umeton, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b BEAM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS CO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

COMPOSITE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL PHASE MODULATORS; POLYMER SLICES; POLYMER SLICES ALTERNATED TO FILMS OF WELL ALIGNED LIQUID CRYSTALS (POLICRYPS);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 44649099562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007619     Document Type: Article

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