The complex refractive indices of the liquid crystal mixture E7 in the terahertz frequency range

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1866-1873

  Yang, Chan Shan ^a   Lin, Chia Jen ^b   Pan, Ru Pin ^b   Que, Christopher T ^c   Yamamoto, Kohji ^c   Tani, Masahiko ^c   Pan, Ci Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CAUCHY EQUATION; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES; NEMATIC AND ISOTROPIC PHASIS; ORDER PARAMETER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE REGION;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77956525294     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001866     Document Type: Article

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