Effects of thermal modulation on diffraction in liquid crystal composite gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 4633-4640

  Ogiwara, Akifumi ^a   Kakiuchida, Hiroshi ^b   Yoshimura, Kazuki ^b   Tazawa, Masato ^b   Emoto, Akira ^c   Ono, Hiroshi ^c  

^a KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CHANGE OF REFRACTIVE INDEX; DIFFRACTION PROPERTY; HOLOGRAPHIC POLYMERS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL COMPOSITES; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION; PHOTO-INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL MODULATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 77955878743     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004633     Document Type: Article

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