Fabrication and characterization of fibers with built-in liquid crystal channels and electrodes for transverse incident-light modulation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stolyarov, Alexander M ^a,b   Wei, Lei ^a   Sorin, Fabien ^a,e   Lestoquoy, Guillaume ^a,c   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e SAINT GOBAIN RECHERCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBERS; CRYSTAL CHANNELS; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; DRIVING FREQUENCIES; FIBER AXIS; HOLLOW CAVITIES; LIGHT INCIDENT; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; POTENTIAL PROFILES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84863685979     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4733319     Document Type: Article

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