Bragging electrically

Akhlesh Lakhtakia

doi:10.1117/12.680322

30 August 2006 Bragging electrically

Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Proceedings Volume 6320, Complex Photonic Media; 63200L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.680322
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The incorporation of the Pockels effect in structurally chiral materials (SCMs) engenders new modalities for control manipulation of the circular Bragg phenomenon (CBP). The boundary-value problem of the reflection and transmission of a plane wave due to a slab of an electro-optic SCM is formulated in terms of a 4×4 matrix ordinary dfferential equation. The SCM slab can be locally endowed with one of 20 classes of point group symmetry, and is subjected to a dc voltage across its thickness. The enhancement (and, in some cases, the production) of the CBP by the application of a dc electric field across the thickness of the SCM slab has switching and circular-polarization-rejection applications in optics.

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia "Bragging electrically", Proc. SPIE 6320, Complex Photonic Media, 63200L (30 August 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.680322

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