Bistability and switching in thin-film waveguides with liquid-crystal cladding
- 3 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 48 (9) , 573-574
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.96470
Abstract
The transmission of guided waves through a thin‐film waveguide with an oriented liquid‐crystal cladding of K18 exhibits, near the liquid‐crystal nematic–isotropic phase transition, a number of all‐optical operations, such as switching and bistability.Keywords
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