摘要:
A liquid crystal optical device that includes a first substrate layer that is substantially flat and a second substrate layer that is substantially flat and parallel to the first substrate layer. The liquid crystal optical device further includes a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer, where the layer of cholesteric liquid crystal is arranged in domains, each domain having a helical axis, wherein the helical axes of the domains have a plurality of orientations relative to an orientation of the first and second substrate layers, and where a wavefront of a light wave having a wavelength within a range of wavelengths changes after reflecting from the layer of cholesteric liquid crystal.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal lens with a variable focal length. The gradient profile of the liquid crystals molecules that causes the gradient profile of the refractive index is achieved by inducing non-uniformly distributed anchoring energy and an external electric or magnetic field applied to the liquid crystal layer. Unlike existing electrically controlled liquid crystal lens, the external electric or magnetic field has a uniform spatial distribution within the liquid crystal layer. The focal length of the liquid crystal lens is controlled via the non-uniformly distributed anchoring energy and by varying the uniformly distributed electric or magnetic field.
摘要:
A method of forming a polarizing material is provided including exposing a layer of dichroic material to activating light illumination to provide an ordered structure with a distinguished absorption axis and thus photo-induce polarization, and fixing the induced polarization by polymerization of the dichroic layer. Novel polarizing materials formed thereby are also provided. By selectively exposing regions of the dichroic material to differing activating radiation, different regions with different polarization axes can be created. The polarizing material can also be provided with a coating or coatings to alter the spectral responses, and a stack formed of a plurality if dichroic layers can be provided.
摘要:
Pixels of an LCD are divided into two sub-pixels, one for a reflective mode and one for a transmittive mode. The cell gaps of both sub-pixels are the same, improving fabrication ease. A novel photoalignment technique is used together with a shadow mask in an embodiment of the invention. Double exposure of the alignment layer with different orientations produces different alignment directions, thereby achieving the different LCD modes for the sub-pixels.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal lens with a variable focal length. The gradient profile of the liquid crystals molecules that causes the gradient profile of the refractive index is achieved by inducing non-uniformly distributed anchoring energy and an external electric or magnetic field applied to the liquid crystal layer. Unlike existing electrically controlled liquid crystal lens, the external electric or magnetic field has a uniform spatial distribution within the liquid crystal layer. The focal length of the liquid crystal lens is controlled via the non-uniformly distributed anchoring energy and by varying the uniformly distributed electric or magnetic field.
摘要:
The invention relates to liquid crystal display cells with fast response and continuous gray scale. The liquid crystal cell is based on a field-sequential color system (“FSC”) and comprises a chiral smectic liquid crystal whose helix pitch is less than thickness of liquid crystal layer placed between two polarizers, as well as a source of voltage applied to electrodes of the cell, wherein the amplitude of the applied voltage is less than the critical voltage amplitude of the helix unwinding. The liquid crystal has one steady state corresponding to twisted helix without applied voltage. In this case, the principal optical axis coincides with the helical axes, but deviates from steady state under the action of a driving voltage, providing thereby an electro-optical response of the display which exhibits gray scale in light transmission or reflection that is continuous, hysteretic-free and non-sensitive to the driving voltage polarity, if the steady orientation of the principle axes is parallel or perpendicular to the light polarization plane and the driving voltage frequency is between 10 Hz and 5 kHz. In embodiments with very short helix pitches, the cells may be free from selective reflection and diffraction in the visible spectral range. Different embodiments of the invention may use ferroelectric liquid crystal, ferroelectric liquid crystal, or antiferroelectric liquid crystal.
摘要:
The invention relates to liquid crystal display cells with fast response and continuous gray scale. The liquid crystal cell is based on a field-sequential color system (“FSC”) and comprises a chiral smectic liquid crystal whose helix pitch is less than thickness of liquid crystal layer placed between two polarizers, as well as a source of voltage applied to electrodes of the cell, wherein the amplitude of the applied voltage is less than the critical voltage amplitude of the helix unwinding. The liquid crystal has one steady state corresponding to twisted helix without applied voltage. In this case, the principal optical axis coincides with the helical axes, but deviates from steady state under the action of a driving voltage, providing thereby an electro-optical response of the display which exhibits gray scale in light transmission or reflection that is continuous, hysteretic-free and non-sensitive to the driving voltage polarity, if the steady orientation of the principle axes is parallel or perpendicular to the light polarization plane and the driving voltage frequency is between 10 Hz and 5 kHz. In embodiments with very short helix pitches, the cells may be free from selective reflection and diffraction in the visible spectral range. Different embodiments of the invention may use ferroelectric liquid crystal, ferroelectric liquid crystal, or antiferroelectric liquid crystal.
摘要:
The present invention provides a patterned polarization converter having multiple domains that can be used to convert input linear polarized light to output light with spatially varying polarization states, including domains that produce linearly polarized light and domains that produce circular polarized light based on the patterning of the domains. A patterned polarization converter having multiple domains may be used in a polarization sensor application capable of detecting the polarization state of input light. The present invention further provides patterned radial and azimuthal polarization converters, which have utility in applications such as optical tweezers. Additionally, patterned polarization converters may be used to fabricate more patterned polarization converters having the same pattern using one-step photoalignment to copy the pattern of an existing patterned polarization converter to an unpatterned photoalignment layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of forming a polarizing material comprising exposing a layer of dichroic material to activating light illumination to provide an ordered structure with a distinguished absorption axis and thus photo-induce polarization, and fixing the induced polarization by polymerisation of the dichroic layer. The present invention also provides novel polarizing materials formed thereby. By selectively exposing regions of the dichroic material to differing activating radiation, different regions with different polarization axes can be created. The polarizing material can also be provided with a coating or coatings to alter the spectral response, and a stack formed of a plurality if dichroic layers may be provided.
摘要:
A liquid crystal (LC) pixel, a method for providing an output thereof and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The LC pixel includes: a first electrode (5) having comb-like structures; an alignment layer (6) adjacent to the first electrode (5), wherein the alignment layer (6) is patterned with local areas that are different from the remaining area of the alignment layer (6) and wherein the local areas are configured to produce local defects in initial orientation in an LC layer (1) upon application of a control voltage; and the LC layer (1), configured to asymmetrically diffract light passing through the LC layer (1) based on configuration of the comb-like structures and the alignment layer (6).