Bistability of liquid crystal microcavities

We develop a model of a liquid crystal Fabry-Pérot microcavity. We study the homeotropic and the hybrid cavity configurations and show that both are multistable. Moreover, in the hybrid case a branch of solutions disconnected from the zero field solution exists.

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Main Authors: D'Alessandro, G. (Author), Wheeler, A.A (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2003.
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