Liquid crystals occupy an important niche in nonlinear optics as a result of their unique
physical and optical properties. Besides their broadband birefringence and transparency …

Exhibited by structurally chiral materials—such as Reusch piles, cholesteric liquid crystals
(CLCs), and chiral sculptured thin films (STFs)—due to their helical nonhomogeneity along a …

Optical phased arrays represent an enabling new technology that makes possible simple
affordable, lightweight, optical sensors offering very precise stabilization, random-access …

Sculptured thin films (STFs) are a class of nanoengineered materials with properties that can
be designed and realized in a controllable manner using physical vapor deposition. This text …

We describe a laser heated diamond anvil cell system at the GeoSoilEnviroCARS sector at
the Advanced Photon Source. The system can be used for in situ x-ray measurements at …

In the CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology: Supplement 2, experts summarize
the discovery and properties of new optical materials that have appeared since the …

Silica‐coated vesicles have been produced by the deposition of silica onto unilamellar
vesicles from aqueous solution for the first time. The quaternary ammonium surface of the …

A chiral nematic liquid crystal–photopolymerizable monomer–chiral azobenzene compound
composite was prepared and then polymerized under UV irradiation. The reflection …

We have shown liquid crystals to be members of the more general class of helicoidal
bianisotropic mediums (HBMs) and have discussed physical realizations of HBMs as liquid …

A linear-to-circular polarization converter with half transmission and half reflection using a
single-layered metamaterial is theoretically and numerically demonstrated. The unit cell of …