Fast visible-near infrared switchable liquid crystal filter

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 502, Issue , 2009, Pages 9-18

  Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Medialdea, David P ^a,b   Hui, Tian ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Quintana, Xabier ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric liquid crystals; Lyot hman filter; Wavelength tunable filter

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; CROSSED POLARIZERS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; HIGH CONTRAST RATIO; LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; SURFACE STABILIZED FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; SWITCHABLE; SWITCHING TIME; TRANSMISSION BAND; TRANSMISSION PEAKS; TRANSMISSION WAVELENGTH; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH RANGE; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCY; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE FILTER;

CRYSTAL FILTERS; CRYSTALS; FERROELECTRICITY; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; WAVELENGTH;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79953186078     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400902813634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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