{"title":"Extended study on liquid crystal photoanisotropic polarization gratings beyond the small angle approximation","authors":"Man Xu, H. Urbach, C. van Heesch, D. D. de Boer","doi":"10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444439","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"By using photo-alignment films, liquid crystals can be oriented and optical birefringence can be induced. We compute the position dependent permittivity tensor that is induced by the interference of two plane waves with arbitrary angles of incidence and arbitrary polarizations. The diffraction by the thus obtained periodic anisotropic grating is studied with rigorous vectorial diffraction theory.","PeriodicalId":114191,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444439","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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By using photo-alignment films, liquid crystals can be oriented and optical birefringence can be induced. We compute the position dependent permittivity tensor that is induced by the interference of two plane waves with arbitrary angles of incidence and arbitrary polarizations. The diffraction by the thus obtained periodic anisotropic grating is studied with rigorous vectorial diffraction theory.