Special Issue on Light Beams in Liquid Crystals

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 3668
• Main Authors: Assanto, Gaetano, Smyth, Noel F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Conflicts of interest; Glass substrates; Investigations; Light; n/a; Nanoparticles; Optics; Propagation; Shock waves

Introduction The study of propagating light beams in liquid crystals, i.e., soft-matter encompassing optical birefringence, nonlocality, anisotropy and all-optical, as well as electro-optic, magneto-optic and thermo-optic responses, has been the subject of extensive experimental and theoretical inve...