Dual frequency liquid crystal devices for infrared electro-optical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4799, Issue , 2002, Pages 37-47

  Gu, Dong Feng ^a   Winker, Bruce ^a   Taber, Don ^a   Cheung, Jeff ^a   Lu, Yiwei ^a   Kobrin, Paul ^a   Zhuang, Zhiming ^b  

^a ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Dielectric anisotropy; Digital beam deflector; Direct drive backplane; Dual frequency liquid crystal; Spatial light modulator; Transparent conductors; Tunable waveplates; Wavefront control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DUAL FREQUENCY LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; INFRARED ELECTROOPTICAL; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0036989453     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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