All-optical intensity modulation of near infrared light in a liquid crystal channel waveguide

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  D'Alessandro, Antonio ^a,b   Asquini, Rita ^a   Trotta, Marco ^a   Gilardi, Giovanni ^a,b   Beccherelli, Romeo ^b   Khoo, Iam Choon ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CRYSTAL CHANNELS; CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; FIBER COUPLED; MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL BEAMS; SILICA ON SILICON; WAVEGUIDING GEOMETRY;

INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; SILICA;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77956381033     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3483157     Document Type: Article

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