%0 Journal Article %1 springerlink:10.3103/S1068337210050038 %A Gevorgyan, A. %A Oganesyan, K. %D 2010 %I Allerton Press, Inc. distributed exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media LLC %J Journal of Contemporary Physics (Armenian Academy of Sciences) %K elect %P 209-214 %R 10.3103/S1068337210050038 %T NLC-CLC-NLC cell as an electrically tunable polarization plane rotator %U http://dx.doi.org/10.3103/S1068337210050038 %V 45 %X A liquid crystal optical device made of an optically anisotropic heterostructure is considered. The device consists of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer sandwiched by two phase-shifting anisotropic layers of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC). In this structure each of the NLC layers is a quarterwave plate. The problem is solved both by Ambartsumian’s method of layer addition and Muller’s matrix method. The peculiarities of reflection spectra, eigen polarizations, rotation of polarization plane and polarization ellipticity are studied. It is shown that this device can work as a light modulator or a system for obtaining linearly polarized light with electrically tunable rotation of the polarization plane (which is especially important for optical communication), as well as a device for obtaining the linearly polarized light from a non-polarized one.

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