Liquid-crystal photonic applications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Vanbrabant, Pieter J M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

liquid crystals; liquid crystal lasers; nematicons; optical nonlinearity; photonic applications; review; spatial light modulators; tunable lenses

Indexed keywords

LIQUID-CRYSTAL LASERS; NEMATICONS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TUNABLE LENS;

LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 79959421440     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3565046     Document Type: Article

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