Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.544, 22-36, 2011
Interference Method for Determining Dispersion of Refractive Indices of Liquid Crystals
An efficient, quick and pretty accurate interference method for determining dispersions of ordinary no and extraordinary ne refractive indices and optical anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals, i.e., ne(), no() and n()ne()-no(), as functions of wavelength (in visible and near infrared region), is presented. The method relies on measurements of positions of interference fringes in spectrogram produced by a flat-parallel nematic liquid crystal cell in only one run.
Keywords:Dispersion of refractive index;nematic liquid crystals;refractive indices of nematic liquid crystals