Infiltrated liquid crystal photonic bandgap devices for switching and tunable filtering

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 161-172

  D’Orazio, Antonella ^a   Desario, Marco ^a   Ingravallo, Vincenzo ^a   Petruzzelli, Vincenzo ^a   Prudenzano, Francesco ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential method; Liquid crystals; Photonic band gap structures; Transfer matrix

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONS;

DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; PHOTONIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES; TRANSFER MATRIX;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 85023793903     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: 10964681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030390111968     Document Type: Article

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