Fabrication of a liquid crystal light modulator by use of femtosecond-laser-induced nanoripples

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1698-1704

  Liao, Yang ^a,b   Qiao, Lingling ^a   Wang, Zhaohui ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Liu, Lianqing ^b   Sugioka, Koji ^c   Cheng, Ya ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING; HOMOGENEOUS ELECTRIC FIELD; LASER DIRECT WRITING; MICROFLUIDIC COMPONENTS; MONOLITHIC SUBSTRATES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICES;

GLASS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROELECTRODES; MOLECULES; SUBSTRATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FABRICATION;

EID: 84888065287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001698     Document Type: Article

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