Optical bistability using nematic liquid crystals and polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Doina Manaila-Maximean; Constantin Rosu; Rodica Bena; Alexandru I. Albu; Ion M. Popescu

doi:10.1117/12.312695

2 July 1998 Optical bistability using nematic liquid crystals and polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Doina Manaila-Maximean, Constantin Rosu, Rodica Bena, Alexandru I. Albu, Ion M. Popescu

Proceedings Volume 3405, ROMOPTO '97: Fifth Conference on Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312695
Event: ROMOPTO '97: Fifth Conference on Optics, 1997, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

We present the experimental results concerning hybrid optical bistable devices without resonant cavity using as electro-optic modulators a nematic liquid crystal cell and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal film. Bistable operation was studied for different control voltages and multistable behavior was studied for the polymer dispersed liquid crystal film as a function of the control voltage frequency.

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Doina Manaila-Maximean, Constantin Rosu, Rodica Bena, Alexandru I. Albu, and Ion M. Popescu "Optical bistability using nematic liquid crystals and polymer-dispersed liquid crystals", Proc. SPIE 3405, ROMOPTO '97: Fifth Conference on Optics, (2 July 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312695

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