Harnessing optical vortex lattices in nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Barboza, R ^a,b   Bortolozzo, U ^a   Assanto, G ^b   Vidal Henriquez, E ^c   Clerc, M G ^c   Residori, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; LATTICE SITES; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; OPTICAL VORTICES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TOPOLOGICAL RULES; VORTEX ARRANGEMENTS;

DEFECTS; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84884217417     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.093902     Document Type: Article

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