Bistability of liquid crystal microcavities

D'Alessandro, G. and Wheeler, A.A. (2003) Bistability of liquid crystal microcavities. Physical Review A, 67, (2), 023816-[12pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.67.023816)

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We develop a model of a liquid crystal Fabry-Pérot microcavity. We study the homeotropic and the hybrid cavity configurations and show that both are multistable. Moreover, in the hybrid case a branch of solutions disconnected from the zero field solution exists.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1050-2947 (print)
Related URLs:http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/Phys....67.023816
Subjects:Q Science > QD Chemistry
Q Science > QA Mathematics
Divisions:University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Mathematics > Applied Mathematics
ePrint ID:371
URI:http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/371
Deposited On:02 Mar 2004
Last Modified:01 Jun 2011 04:37

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