Search for Hermite-Gauss mode rotation in cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 12978-12983

  Loffler W ^a   Van Exter, M P ^a   T'Hooft, G W ^a   Nienhuis, G ^a   Broer, D J ^b   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; METAL CLADDING; OPTICAL ROTATION;

MODE ROTATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT; SPIN ORBITS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION;

LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79959915658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012978     Document Type: Article

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