Analysis of liquid crystals orientation in microcapillaries

Authors

  • Miłosz Chychłowski
  • Slawomir Ertman
  • Tomasz R. Woliński

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v2i1.96

Abstract

Growing interest in photonic liquid crystal fibers, as relatively easily controllable optical fiber devices, force us to examine the quality of orientation of liquid crystals infiltrating a photonic crystal fiber. In this letter, we present a novel method of orientation analysis of liquid crystals in microcapillaries.

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2010-03-30

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M. Chychłowski, S. Ertman, and T. R. Woliński, “Analysis of liquid crystals orientation in microcapillaries”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. pp. 31–33, Mar. 2010.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010)

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