摘要:
Optical four wave mixing is provided by interfering two waves on a liquid crystal layer (1) temperature stabilised just beneath its nematic/isotropic phase change transition temperature. The liquid crystal incorporates a guest dye to absorb the light producing a holographic thermal image which is accompanied by a holographic phase image. Once this phase image starts to build up it is illuminated with a 'third wave' of light that is not absorbed so as to produce the required holographically diffracted 'fourth wave'.
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@ An iris and shutter arrangement for camera, particularly a CCD camera, is provided in which a first liquid crystal display is formed of a plurality of concentric annuli of liquid crystal material and a second liquid crystal display is provided as a further plurality of coaxial annuli each of which overlies the space separating one annuli from the next in the first display. The first display also includes a relatively clear central circular area, defining the smallest aperture desired, which is covered by a circular area of liquid crystal material in the second display. The annuli in both cases are continuous save for breaks along a line forming a path for controlling conductors deposited upon the faceplates of the two displays.
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A multilayer film comprising an aromatic polyester layer and a silicone resin layer formed on at least one surface of the aromatic polyester layer. The multilayer film has excellent transparency, heat resistance, dimensional stability, mechanical strength and optical property and an improved solvent resistance, and is useful as a material of a liquid crystal display panel.
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A high-speed electro-optical light gate (40) includes a pair of matched variable optical retarders (54 and 56) positioned between a pair of light polarizing filters (42 and 44) to promote rapid switching between optical transmission states for light rays of the wavelength to which the variable optical retarders are tuned. The projections (62 and 66) of the optic axes of the variable optical retarders are orthogonally aligned so that the response time characteristics of the transitions between optical transmission states of the light gate reflect only the turn-on time response characteristic of the variable optical retarders. A field sequential color display system (78) incorporates a switchable color filter (80) which utilizes the alignment configuration of the variable optical retarders of the light gate to provide light output states of white light and light of three different colors to form an image in full color.
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57 A laser beam addressed smectic display in which the laser beam is used to write clear tracks in an optically scattering field employs an anisotropic conductivity dopant in the liquid crystal filling so that the cell can be electrically set into the scattering state by means of electrohydrodynamic instability effects. This requires the use of a laser light absorbing dye that is not only photochemically stable, but also stable against the effects of the relatively high fields and currents present when the cell is being set into the scattering state.
摘要:
A polariscope in which a sample (5) is positioned between pairs of polarising devices (2,10) and liquid crystal cells (3,9) is provided with a Fréedericksz cell compensator (6) with associated power supply (7) to serve as an optical tuning device.
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A coherent light optical processor employs a matrix addressed smectic liquid crystal display device (14) as a matched filter in the spatial frequency or Fourier transform plane of the correlator.
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A method and an apparatus provide an optical switching system (100) which maintains essentially constant transmissivity at its maximum value and develops independent of viewing angle two system optical- transmission states of substantially contaminant-free light. The system includes first and second light gates (102 and 104) of which each has associated therewith contaminant light intensity patterns (48 and 66) with points of local maxima (54, 56, 58, 60, 68, and 70) and local minima (62 and 72) in two system optical transmission states. Quarter-wave plates (134 and 136) are positioned between the light gates to develop circular polarization of light propagating between them. The presence of circularly polarized light maintains the system transmissivity at its maximum value while the relative orientation of the light gates is changed to align their contaminant light intensity patterns to block the transmission of contaminant light, and thereby improve the viewing angle performance.