Title :
Optimization of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells for efficient optical switching
Author :
Grzegorz Budzyn;Janusz Rzepka;Marcin Bielenin;Wojciech Fraczek
Author_Institution :
Institute of Telecommunication and Acoustics, Janiszewskiego 7/9, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Abstract :
In this paper they present the aspects of using surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells as optical switches. SSFLC based switches offer good parameters and construction simplicity. First a short description of liquid crystals is given, than an idea of using liquid crystal cells as optical switches is presented. Next the experiments are described and summarized.
Keywords :
"Ferroelectric materials","Liquid crystals","Optical switches","Photonic crystals","Optical polarization","Optical refraction","Optical bistability","Anisotropic magnetoresistance","Telecommunication switching","Geometrical optics"
Conference_Titel :
ICTON Mediterranean Winter Conference, 2007. ICTON-MW 2007
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1638-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICTONMW.2007.4446976
