Low absorption liquid crystals for mid-wave infrared applications

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10843-10848

  Chen, Yuan ^a   Xianyu, Haiqing ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Kula, Przemyslaw ^b   Dabrowski, Roman ^b   Tripathi, Suvagata ^c   Twieg, Robert J ^c   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; LOW LOSS; MIDWAVE INFRARED; NEAR-IR; NEMATIC PHASE; TERPHENYL LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISCO-ELASTIC;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 79957602801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010843     Document Type: Article

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