Theoretical study on optical properties of liquid crystalline Skyrmion lattice

Jun-ichi Fukuda; Slobodan Žumer

doi:10.1117/12.2507520

1 March 2019 Theoretical study on optical properties of liquid crystalline Skyrmion lattice

Jun-ichi Fukuda, Slobodan Žumer

Proceedings Volume 10941, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIV; 1094108 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507520
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A chiral liquid crystal sandwiched by two parallel plates has been shown to exhibit various exotic structures including a hexagonal lattice of Skyrmion excitations. Here we focus on the optical properties of a hexagonal Skyrmion lattice and present our theoretical studies based on direct numerical solving of Maxwell equations for light waves. Specifically, we discuss Kossel diagrams and optical microscope images of a hexagonal Skyrmion lattice and other structures resembling a thin slice of a bulk blue phase structure.

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Jun-ichi Fukuda and Slobodan Žumer "Theoretical study on optical properties of liquid crystalline Skyrmion lattice", Proc. SPIE 10941, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIV, 1094108 (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507520

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