Affect on the UV polymerization condition of polymer liquid crystal materials for variable optical attenuator

Author

Zhang, Xindong ; Liu, Caixia ; Guo, Wenbin ; Zhong, Zhicheng ; Li, Fumin ; Ruan, Shengping ; Dong, Wei ; Chen, Weiyou

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. on Integrate Optoelectron., Jilin Univ., Jilin

fYear

2008

fDate

6-9 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

854

Lastpage

857

Abstract

The refractive index of polymer liquid crystal materials can be effectively controlled by electric field. Their electro-optical properties are useful in the study of the electro- optic devices. In this paper, we introduce a variable optical attenuator using polymer liquid crystal (PLC) materials that prepared by the photo polymerization induced phase separation method. It describes the affect on the UV polymerization condition of the preparation of PLC, presents some experimental results obtained in laboratory. The results showed the photo polymerization conditions play important roles in the phase separated process of polymer liquid crystal materials, it determine the switching voltage, response time, and luminance of the PLC using for the VOA.

Keywords

electro-optical devices; liquid crystal polymers; optical attenuators; phase separation; polymerisation; refractive index; UV polymerization; electric field; electro-optic devices; phase separation; photo polymerization; polymer liquid crystal; refractive index; variable optical attenuator; Crystalline materials; Electric variables control; Liquid crystal polymers; Optical attenuators; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical polymers; Optical variables control; Programmable control; Refractive index; PLC; VOA; electro-optical properties; photo polymerization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, 2008. NEMS 2008. 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1907-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1908-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2008.4484458

Filename

4484458