Electrooptic jumps in natural helicoidal photonic bandgap structures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4611-4617

  Allahverdyan, Karen ^a   Galstian, Tigran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

DEFORMATION CONDITIONS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; NEGATIVE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; PHOTONIC BAND-GAP STRUCTURES; PITCH JUMPS; SELF ADAPTATION; THIN SUBSTRATE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79952170007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004611     Document Type: Article

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