1 December 2011, Volume 1, Issue 8, pp. 1399-1587  
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Focus issue introduction: liquid crystal materials for photonic applications

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1585-1587 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Bistable reflective polarizer-free optical switch based on dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal [Invited]

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1457-1462 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-orienting liquid crystal doped with polymer-azo-dye complex

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1463-1470 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid crystal infiltrated waveguide with distributed Bragg reflectors

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1471-1477 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid crystal blue phase induced by bent-shaped molecules with allylic end groups

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1478-1483 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Reversible phototuning of lasing frequency in dye doped cholesteric liquid crystal and ways to improve it [Invited]

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1484-1493 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Phase separation and pattern instability of laser-induced polymerization in liquid-crystal-monomer mixtures

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1494-1501 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of monomer/liquid crystal compositions on electro-optical properties of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1502-1510 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals: a tutorial [Invited]

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1527-1535 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ordering of glass rods in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1536-1547 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Electro-optical properties of polymer-stabilized blue phase with different monomer combination and concentration

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1561-1568 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Dual frequency operation of a blue phase liquid crystal

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1577-1584 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

In situ observation of light-assisted domain reversal in lithium niobate crystals

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1433-1438 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Yb3+, Tm3+ and Ho3+ triply-doped tellurite core-cladding optical fiber for white light generation

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1515-1526 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Donor-acceptor-pair emission characterization in N-B doped fluorescent SiC

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1439-1446 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-watt laser operation and laser parameters of Ho-doped Lu2O3 at 2.12 μm

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1447-1456 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

First ceramic laser in the visible spectral range

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1511-1514 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-resolved axial-view of the dielectric breakdown under tight focusing in glass

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1399-1408 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Lateral gradient index microlenses written in ophthalmic hydrogel polymers by femtosecond laser micromachining

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1416-1424 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-assisted highly organized structuring of copper

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1425-1432 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Selective electroless silver plating of three dimensional SU-8 microstructures on silicon for metamaterials applications

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1548-1554 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Crystal defects revealed by Schlieren photography and chemical etching in nonlinear single crystal LYSB

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1569-1576 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of symmetry breaking in pentamers on Fano resonance and near-field energy localization

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1409-1415 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonpolar light emitting diode made by m-plane n-ZnO/p-GaN heterostructure

Opt. Mater. Express 1(8), 1555-1560 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF