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Sluijter, M. (author)When the optical behavior of light in a medium depends on the direction in which light is traveling, the medium is called optically anisotropic. Light is an electromagnetic wave and in this thesis, we discuss the electromagnetic theory on optical anisotropy. We do this with the assumption that the wavelength of light approaches zero. The field...doctoral thesis 2010
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author)Firm evidence of the biaxial nematic phase in liquid crystals, not induced by a magnetic or electric field, has been established only recently. The discovery of these biaxially anisotropic liquid crystals has opened up new areas of both fundamental and applied research. The advances in biaxial liquid crystal-related topics call for a good...journal article 2009
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- Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author), Strömer, J. (author), Cennini, G. (author) conference paper 2009
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author)We present simulations of a novel liquid-crystal-based electro-optical device that enables a switching effect owing to a backreflection phenomenon. In the simulations, we exploit the optical properties of a liquid-crystal layer with a Freédericksz alignment in an unconventional way. The resulting switching effect of the proposed optical design...journal article 2008
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Braat, J.J.M. (author)Uniaxial optical anisotropy in the geometrical-optics approach is a classical problem, and most of the theory has been known for at least fifty years. Although the subject appears frequently in the literature, wave propagation through inhomogeneous anisotropic media is rarely addressed. The rapid advances in liquid-crystal lenses call for a good...journal article 2008