Switchable holographic image splitter fabricated with dye-doped liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6640-6649

  Su, Wei Chia ^a   Hung, Wen Bin ^a   Hsiao, Hsuan Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; POLARIZATION;

3D STEREOGRAM; DYE DOPED LIQUID CRYSTAL; EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENT; HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION GRATINGS; WRITING BEAMS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84875204821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006640     Document Type: Article

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