Photoaligning and Photopatterning—A New Challenge in Liquid Crystal Photonics

Aging of surface anchoring and surface viscosity of a nematic liquid crystal on photoaligning poly-(vinyl-cinnamate).

Dynamic light scattering was used to measure the azimuthal anchoring energy coefficient W(straight phi) of nematic liquid crystal (5CB) on photoaligning poly-(vinyl-cinnamate) layer. Measurements were repeated several times within two months. The results show that W(straight phi) increases in the first few days after filling the cell with liquid crystal. Then it remains approximately constant a...

Photopatterning of Liquid Crystal Alignment Cells

44.3: Photo-Aligned Passively Addressed Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display Cells: Effect of Aligning Layer Thickness

Effect of photoaligning azo-dye layers thickness on the alignment quality and multiplex operation of passively addressed ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) 1.5μm display cells has been investigated. An optimal (about 3~5 nm) azo-dye layer thickness, that provides both the highest multiplex operation steadiness and the best contrast ratio of FLC display cells was found.

A New Proposal for 4-to-2 Optical Encoder Using Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators

In this paper, we proposed an all optical 4-to-2 encoder that has 4 input and 3 output ports. This device generates a 2 bit binary code based on which input port is active. We used nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators along with optical power splitter for realizing the proposed encoder. In this device the switching rate and area are obtained about 333 GHz and 612µm2 respectively.

Temperature Tunability of Dielectric/ Liquid Crystal / Dielectric Photonic Crystal Structures

Recently, photonic crystals doped with liquid crystal (LC) material havegained much research interest. In this article new ternary one-dimensional photoniccrystal introduced and studied. The liquid crystal layer of 5CB and 5PCH is sandwichedby two dielectric layers. For the first time, we use four structures SiO2/UCF35/CaF2,SiO2/5CB/CaF2, NFK51/UCF35/NPSK53 and NFK51/5CB/NPSK53. The effect ofte...