A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) is periodically inhomogeneous along its spirality axis. An exact analytic solution for oblique (i.e., off-axis) propagation in a CLC is presented for the first time. The solution involves only the addition and multiplication of 4 × 4 matrices, and it can be evaluated to an arbitrary degree of precision because it is expressed as a uniformly convergent series.
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