Tunable optical vortex arrays from a single nematic topological defect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Brasselet, Etienne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UMR 5798   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NONSINGULAR; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE SINGULARITIES; STRUCTURED LIGHT; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

DEFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84857614742     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.087801     Document Type: Article

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