Fabrication of liquid crystal polymer axial waveplates for UV-IR wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11926-11934

  Nersisyan, Sarik ^a   Tabiryan, Nelson ^a   Steeves, Diane M ^b   Kimball, Brian R ^b  

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

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

(050.4865) Optical vortices; (160.3710) Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; SPACE TELESCOPES; VORTEX FLOW;

AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; BEAM PROFILES; HIGH QUALITY; IR WAVELENGTHS; OPTICAL VORTICES; POWER DENSITIES; SATURATION REGIME; VORTEX AXIS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

HELIUM; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER; NEON; POLYMER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANISOTROPY; HELIUM; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEON; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 67650529723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011926     Document Type: Article

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