Simple and exact analytic solution for oblique propagation in a cholesteric liquid crystal

✍ Scribed by Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Werner S. Weiglhofer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(199607)12:4<245::aid-mop17>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

A cholesteric liquid c ystal (CLC) is periodically inhomogeneous along its spirality axis. An exact analytic solution for oblique (i.e., off-a's) propagation in a CLC is presented for the first time. The solution involves only the addition and multiplication of 4 X 4 matrices, and it can be evaluated to an arbitrary degree of precision because it is

expressed as a uniformly convergent series.