Jones matrix analysis of dichroic phase retarders realized in soft matter composite materials

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5776-5784

  Caputo, Roberto ^a,b   Trebisacce, Ivan ^b   De Sio, Luciano ^b   Umeton, Cesare ^b  

^a National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM CNR)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METAL CLADDING; POLARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INCOMING LIGHT; JONES MATRIX; MATRIX; PHASE RETARDERS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMER SLICES; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; SOFT MATTER; THEORETICAL MODELS; WAVEPLATES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HARDNESS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HARDNESS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77949638141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005776     Document Type: Article

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