Focus issue introduction: liquid crystal materials for photonic applications

Wei Lee and Shin-Tson Wu

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]

Chun-Ta Wang and Tsung-Hsien Lin

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

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

Elena Ouskova, Jaana Vapaavuori, and Matti Kaivola

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

Liquid crystal infiltrated waveguide with distributed Bragg reflectors

Dong-Po Cai, Hung-Yi Pan, Ji-Fang Tsai, Hua-Kung Chiu, Shan-Chi Nian, Sheng Hsiung Chang, Chii-Chang Chen, and Chien-Chieh Lee

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

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

Ge Zhu, Xiao-Wen Lin, Wei Hu, Zhi-Gang Zheng, Hai-Feng Wang, Hong-Qing Cui, Dong Shen, and Yan-Qing Lu

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]

Igor P. Ilchishin, Longin N. Lisetski, and Taras V. Mykytiuk

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

Chandroth P. Jisha, Kuei-Chu Hsu, YuanYao Lin, Ja-Hon Lin, Kai-Ping Chuang, Chao-Yi Tai, and Ray-Kuang Lee

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

Thet Naing Oo, Tatsuro Mizunuma, Yasutomo Nagano, Hengyi Ma, Yukiko Ogawa, Yasuhiro Haseba, Hiroki Higuchi, Yasushi Okumura, and Hirotsugu Kikuchi

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

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

Jin Yan and Shin-Tson Wu

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

Ordering of glass rods in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals

A. T. Juhl, D.-K. Yang, V. P. Tondiglia, L. V. Natarajan, T. J. White, and T. J. Bunning

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

Tatsuro Mizunuma, Thet Naing Oo, Yasutomo Nagano, Hengyi Ma, Yasuhiro Haseba, Hiroki Higuchi, Yasushi Okumura, and Hirotsugu Kikuchi

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

Dual frequency operation of a blue phase liquid crystal

Shuhei Yabu, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Gihwan Lim, Kosuke Kaneko, Yasushi Okumura, Noboru Uehara, Hirotsugu Kikuchi, and Masanori Ozaki

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