2008/03/04 by Caio Sátiro, Caio satiro, Fernando Moraes +18 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes #Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epje/i2008-10309-4
To appear in Eur. Phys. J. E
arxiv created 2008/03/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2011/11/22 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
The influence of controllable parameters like temperature and wavelength on the trajectories of light in a nematic liquid crystal with topological defects is studied through a geometric model. The model incorporates phenomenological details as how the refractive indices depend on such parameters. The deflection of light by the topological defect is then shown to be greater at lower temperatures and shorter wavelengths.