Dynamic holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals

Augustine M. Urbas; Jay Klosterman; Vincent Tondiglia; Lalgudi V. Natarajan; Richard L. Sutherland; Nelson Tabirian; Tomiki Ikeda; Timothy J. Bunning

doi:10.1117/12.560014

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14 October 2004 Dynamic holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals

Augustine M. Urbas, Jay Klosterman, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Richard L. Sutherland, Nelson Tabirian, Tomiki Ikeda, Timothy J. Bunning

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Proceedings Volume 5511, Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560014
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Controlling the optical properties of patterned optical materials is generally useful. Much headway has been made into patterning passive optical structures and fabricating them of a variety of materials. Recent efforts have been made to tune the properties thermally, electronically and optically. Liquid crystals offer several mechanisms for varying their optical properties. They have been incorporated into patterned templates to make electro-optic and photo-optic materials. Holographic photopolymerization provides a means to form an arbitrary structure incorporating multiple material phases such as liquid crystals. Electro optic holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals (HPDLCs) have been the subject of extensive investigation. We report photo-optic HPDLCs incorporating azobenzene derived liquid crystals (Azo-LCs).

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Augustine M. Urbas, Jay Klosterman, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Richard L. Sutherland, Nelson Tabirian, Tomiki Ikeda, and Timothy J. Bunning "Dynamic holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals", Proc. SPIE 5511, Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures, (14 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560014

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