Electrically switchable, photoaddressable cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 173-178

  White, Timothy J ^a   Bricker, Rebecca L ^a,b   Natarajan, Lalgudi V ^a,c   Tondiglia, Vincent P ^a,c   Green, Lisa ^d   Li, Quan ^d   Bunning, Timothy J ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOCHE   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUIDS; MIXTURES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NOTCH FILTERS;

AC VOLTAGE; CHIRAL MATERIAL; COLOR TUNING; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; POTENTIAL UTILITY; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SWITCHABLE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 73549096857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000173     Document Type: Article

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