Circular polarization interferometry: Circularly polarized modes of cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 31227-31236

  Sanchez Castillo, A ^a   Eslami, S ^a   Giesselmann, F ^b   Fischer, P ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; POLARIZATION INTERFEROMETER; POLARIZATION INTERFEROMETRY; RIGHT CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; ROTATION MEASUREMENT;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84919688134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.031227     Document Type: Article

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