Bistable reflective polarizer-free optical switch based on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1457-1462

  Wang, Chun Ta ^a   Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SWITCHES; DYES; TEXTURES;

DICHROIC DYES; ELECTRICAL FIELD; ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHES; HELICAL STRUCTURES; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECT; PLANAR TEXTURES; REFLECTIVE POLARIZERS; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84862232254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001457     Document Type: Article

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