Electrically tunable liquid-crystal wave plate using quadripolar electrode configuration and transparent conductive polymer layers

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 5301-5306

  Fraval, Nicolas ^a   Joffre, Pascal ^a   Formont, Stéphane ^b   Chazelas, Jean ^b  

^a Micromodule   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; DEGREE OF CONTROL; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRODE DESIGN; POLARIZATION STATE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; UNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELDS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 70349695816     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.005301     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. V. Freedericksz and V. Zolina, "Forces causing the orientation of an anisotropic liquid", Trans. Faraday Soc. 29, 919-930 (1933).
2. S. E. Gilman, T. G. Baur, D. J. Gallagher, and N. K. Shankar, "Properties of tunable nematic liquid-crystal retarders", Proc. SPIE 1166, 461-471 (1990).
3. U. Efron, S. T. Wu, and T. D. Bates, "Nematic liquid crystals for spatial light modulators: recent studies", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 247-252 (1986).
4. K. Hirabayashi and C. Amano, "Liquid-crystal polarization controller arrays on planar waveguide circuits", IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 14, 504-506 (2002).
5. M. Hareng, G. Assouline, and E. Leiba, "La birefringence electriquement controlee dans les cristaux liquides nematiques", Appl. Opt. 11, 2920-2925 (1972).
6. G. D. Sharp and K. M. Johnson, "High-speed analog complexamplitude liquid-crystal light modulator", Opt. Lett. 19, 1228-1230 (1994).
7. K. Hirabayashi, "Electrically controllable liquid-crystal rotatable wave plate with variable phase retardation", Appl. Opt. 44, 3552-3559 (2005).
8. Y. Ohtera, T. Chiba, and S. Kawakami, "Liquid crystal rotatable waveplates", IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 8, 390-392 (1996).
9. L. Dupont, J. L. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, M. L. Gall, and D. Penninckx, "Principle of a compact polarisation mode dispersion controller using homeotropic electroclinic liquid crystal confined single mode fibre devices", Opt. Commun. 176, 113-119 (2000).
10. Y. Defosse, P. Gautier, J. de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, F Colliou, A. Guenot, G. Mouzer, C. Kaczmarek, and D. Labat, "Stabilized liquid crystal rotatable fractional wave-plates stack for fast polarisation analysis and control", in "Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004 (OFC 2004) (IEEE, 2004), Vol. 2, paper ThF 1-3.
11. P. Joffre, G. Illiaquer, and J. P. Huignard, "Electro-optic properties of nematic liquid crystals for phase modulation in the infrared 10:6 um", Proc. SPIE 1126, 12-20 (1989).
12. D. Dolfi, M. Labeyrie, P. Joffre, and J. Huignard, "Liquid crystal microwave phase shifter", Electron. Lett. 29, 926-928 (1993).
13. S. Kirchmeyer and K. Reuter, "Scientific importance, properties and growing applications of poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)", J. Mater. Chem. 15, 2077-2088 (2005).
14. C. Geuzaine, P. Dular, and W. Legros, "A general environment for the treatment of discrete problems and its application to coupled finite element and boundary integral methods", in Proceedings of the 8th International Institute for Fundamentals and Theory in Electrical Engineering (IGTE) Symposium on Numerical Field Calculation in Electrical Engineering (IGTE, 1998).
15. B. R. Acharya, K. W. Baldwin, R. A. MacHarrie, J. A. Rogers, C. C. Huang, and R. Pindak, "In-fiber nematic liquid crystal optical modulator based on in-plane switching with microsecond response time", Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 5243-5245 (2002).
16. J. Ouyang, C. Chu, F Chen, Q. Xu, and Y Yang, "Highconductivity poly (3, 4-thylenedioxythiophene) : poly (styrene sulfonate) film and its application in polymer optoelectronic devices", Adv. Funct. Mater. 15, 203-208 (2005).
17. S. Wu, U. Efron, and L. D. Hess, "Birefringence measurements of liquid crystals", Appl. Opt. 23, 3911-3915 (1984).