READ ME File For 'All-Optical Switching of Liquid Crystals at Terahertz Frequencies Enabled by Metamaterials - Dataset' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2570 ReadMe Author: Ben Beddoes, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Ben Beddoes, Eleni Perivolari, Vasilis Apostolopoulos, Malgosia Kaczmarek and Vassili A Fedotov All-Optical Switching of Liquid Crystals at Terahertz Frequencies Enabled by Metamaterials Optics Express DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.488360 This dataset contains: Modelling data generated for the falloff of the local electric field around the MM edges. The dataset is split into 3 subfolders for following the electric field at 90 degrees, 45 degrees and 0 degrees to LC alignment. LC alignment in this case is parallel to the straight edges of the MMs. Each sub fold contains the distance from the MM edge "z_#" and the Electric field strength "E_#". 3 MATLAB files which contain the models used to generate the figure 4 plots The files are as follows: **Figure4_RawData** contains the raw data from which the figure 4 plots were made. **Figure4a** MATLAB file for the model used to generate figure 4a **Figure4b** MATLAB file for the model used to generate figure 4b **Figure4c** MATLAB file for the model used to generate figure 4c Dates of data collection: 4 January 2023 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence - CC-BY Date that the file was created: 23 March 2023 DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- N