Liquid crystalline nonlinear optical metamaterials with low-loss tunable negative-zero-positive refractive indices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6587, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Khoo, I C ^a   Diaz, A ^a   Kwon, D H ^a   Werner, D H ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Nano spheres; Negative and zero index; Supra optical nonlinearity; Tunable metamaterials

Indexed keywords

DIRECTOR AXIS REORIENTATION; GAIN MEDIUM; LARGE OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; LASER DYES; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; LOW LOSSES; META-MATERIALS; NANO-SPHERES; NEGATIVE AND ZERO INDEX; NONLINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL FIELDS; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDICES; SUPRA OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; TUNABLE METAMATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POWDERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TURBULENT FLOW; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; MATERIALS SCIENCE;

MATERIALS SCIENCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 47149085869     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.721506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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