Large birefringence liquid crystal material in terahertz range

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1314-1319

  Wang, Lei ^a   Lin, Xiao Wen ^a   Liang, Xiao ^b   Wu, Jing Bo ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Zheng, Zhi Gang ^a   Jin, Biao Bing ^a   Qin, Yi Qiang ^a   Lu, Yan Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE PROPERTY; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; LARGE BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES; NEMATIC MIXTURES; TERAHERTZ DEVICE; TERAHERTZ RANGE; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 84870387536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001314     Document Type: Article

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