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Phys. Rev. A 67, 023816 (2003) [12 pages]

Bistability of liquid crystal microcavities

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G. D’Alessandro and A. A. Wheeler
Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

Received 4 October 2002; published 28 February 2003

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.


©2003 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.023816
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.023816
PACS: 42.65.Pc, 42.70.Df, 42.60.Da

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