Stokes parameter studies of spontaneous emission from chiral nematic liquid crystals as a one-dimensional photonic stopband crystal: Experiment and theory
The helical structure of uniformly aligned chiral nematic liquid crystals results in a photonic stopband for only one sense of circular polarization. The spectroscopic Stokes polarimeter is used to analyze spontaneous emission in the stopband. Highly polarized photoluminescence is found and the pola...
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American Physical Society
2005
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| Online Access: | http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041706 http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041706 |