Liquid crystal gratings based on alternate TN and PA photoalignment

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5384-5391

  Hu, Wei ^a,b   Srivastava, Abhishek ^b   Xu, Fei ^a   Sun, Jia Tong ^b   Lin, Xiao Wen ^a   Cui, Hong Qing ^c   Chigrinov, Vladimir ^b   Lu, Yan Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c LCD R and D Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGIC DEVICES;

CROSSED POLARIZERS; DIFFRACTED LIGHT; DIRECTOR DISTRIBUTION; EXTINCTION RATIOS; LIQUID CRYSTAL GRATINGS; LOW VOLTAGES; OPTICAL LOGIC DEVICE; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; TUNABLE GRATING; TWIST NEMATIC;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84857539895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005384     Document Type: Article

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