Widely tunable electro-optic distributed Bragg reflector in liquid crystal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11524-11529

  Gilardi, Giovanni ^a   Asquini, Rita ^a   D'Alessandro, Antonio ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COMB ELECTRODES; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK GRATING; ELECTRO-OPTICS; WAVE VOLTAGES; WIDE TUNING RANGE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77952859269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011524     Document Type: Article

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