Finite-difference time-domain analysis of cholesteric blue phase II using the Landau-de Gennes tensor order parameter model

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3380-3383

  Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Fukuda, Jun Ichi ^b   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHASE; CHOLESTERIC BLUE PHASIS; LANDAU-DE GENNES THEORY; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; TENSOR ORDER PARAMETER; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BAND STRUCTURE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; TENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 84883400051     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.003380     Document Type: Article

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