Formation of anisotropic diffraction gratings in a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal by polarization modulation using a spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3015-3022

  Ogiwara, Akifumi ^a   Hirokari, Takuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EFFICIENCY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHIC POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL; HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPES; POLARIZATION MODULATION; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 49649084452     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003015     Document Type: Article

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