Abstract
Optical anisotropy na = ne – no of nematic liquid crystals (NLC) is usually large enough, so the wave with an eigen polarization follows adiabatically the local orientation of the optical axis, i.e., of the director n(R): ed(R) = n(R) − k(kn)k2, e0(R) − [kee], where k is the wave vector. The present report deals with the phase which a- or e-waves acquire passing through the NLC cell with inhomogeneous orientation of director inside it.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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