Tunable liquid crystal optical microcavities

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7955, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Musevic I ^a,b   Humar, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

liquid crystals; microcavities; tunable resonators; whispering gallery modes

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; FREESTANDING FILMS; IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL DROPLETS; LOW LOSS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MODE SHIFTS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL MODES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE TUNING; TUNABLE RESONATORS; TUNING RANGES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

CRYSTALS; DEFORMATION; DROP BREAKUP; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TUNING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79953688285     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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