Tunable liquid crystal q-plates with arbitrary topological charge

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4085-4090

  Slussarenko, Sergei ^a   Murauski, Anatoli ^b   Du, Tao ^b   Chigrinov, Vladimir ^b   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^a,c   Santamato, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CNR SPIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTOALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79952172304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004085     Document Type: Article

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