Finite-difference time domain simulation of light propagation in blue phase liquid crystals

Pankaj Joshi,Amir Jahanshahi,Jelle De Smet,Xiaobing Shang,Esma Islamaj,Dieter Cuypers,Geert Van Steenberge,Sandra Van Vlierberghe,Peter Dubruel,Herbert De Smet

Finite-difference time domain simulation of light propagation in blue phase liquid crystals

2014

Pankaj Joshi
Amir Jahanshahi
Jelle De Smet
Xiaobing Shang
Esma Islamaj
Dieter Cuypers
Geert Van Steenberge
Sandra Van Vlierberghe
Peter Dubruel
Herbert De Smet

We present the results of numerical experiments of propagation of circularly polarized light through Cholesteric Blue Phase Liquid Crystals (BPLC) and make a comparison with experimental results. Commercial tool “Lumerical FDTD” was used to perform the computations.

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Finite-difference time-domain method
Circular polarization
Liquid crystal
Materials science
Optics
Computation
light propagation

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