Liquid crystal Lyot tunable filter with extended free spectral range

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11426-11433

  Aharon, Ofir ^a   Abdulhalim, I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

(120.2440) Filters; (160.3710) Liquid crystals; (230.3720) Liquid crystal devices; (230.7408) Wavelength filtering devices; (310.5448) Polarization

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FILTRATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; DIFFERENT VOLTAGES; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTAL VARIABLE RETARDERS; TUNABLE LYOT FILTER; WAVELENGTH FILTERING DEVICES;

CRYSTAL FILTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 67650556294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011426     Document Type: Article

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