High Transmittance Stressed Liquid Crystals In Visible Spectral Range

Here we present our recently developed high transmittance stressed liquid crystals (HTSLC) optimized for operation in the visible spectral range. An HTSLC device is fabricated from mixtures of liquid crystal, photopolymer and a small fraction of reactive mesogen sandwiched between two transparent ITO coated glass substrates. HTSLC devices have many potential optical applications for display, adaptable lenses and related electro-optic devices.. The HTSLC produce large phase shifts. An 18 mu m thick HTSLC device can produce more than l pm phase shift in 1 ms. The transmittance (corrected for front and back surface reflections) of the device is more than 95% at 600nm and 99% in the near IR spectral range.