title: Comment on "Photon transmission technique for studying multiple phase transitions in a liquid crystal".
abstract: Contrary to the recently published results by Ozbek et al. [Phys. Rev. E 59, 6798 (1999)], we argue that the transmitted light intensity through an unoriented sample is by no means a good measure of the order parameters of the different phase transitions of a liquid crystal.
authors.affiliation: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Etchegoin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nöllmann