Photoinduced helical inversion in cholesteric liquid crystal cells with homeotropic anchoring

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3499-3508

  Gvozdovskyy, Igor ^a   Yaroshchuk, Oleg ^a   Serbina, Marina ^b   Yamaguchi, Rumiko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SCINTILLATION MATERIALS   (Ukraine)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BEAM-STEERING; EDGE ENHANCEMENTS; HELICAL INVERSION; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; HOMEOTROPIC STATE; NEW OPTIONS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTO-TUNABLE; RIGHT-HANDED HELIX; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84857315578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003499     Document Type: Article

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