Optical crossover phenomenon due to a central 90°-twist defect in a chiral sculptured thin film or chiral liquid crystal

DOI10.1098/rspa.2005.1478zbMath1186.78040OpenAlexW2109574651MaRDI QIDQ5427658

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Fei Wang

Publication date: 21 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2005.1478

zbMATH Keywords

circular Bragg phenomenonchiral liquid crystalcoupled-wave theorystructural chiralitychiral sculptured thin film

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

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