Optical properties and helicity in liquid crystals

Licentiate thesis, 1991

de Vries' formula

smectic A*

smectic helix

Poincaré sphere

homeotropic alignment

chiral

light switch

birefringence

electroclinic

diffraction method

indicatrix

phase grating

helial pitch

snisotropy

liquid crystals

smectic C*

handedness

book-shelf geometry

Cano method

ferroelectric

biaxiality

dielectric tensor