Laser-directed hierarchical assembly of liquid crystal defects and control of optical phase singularities

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ackerman, Paul J ^a,b   Qi, Zhiyuan ^a   Lin, Yiheng ^a   Twombly, Christopher W ^a   Laviada, Mauricio J ^a   Lansac, Yves ^a,c   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Faculty of Sciences and Techniques   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PROCESSES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84862000690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00414     Document Type: Article

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