Electrooptical materials, use

This is certainly the most advanced potential application of FLCPs. Taking advantage of the processability of FLC polymers, Idemitsu Kosan Co. has fabricated a large-area, static-driven display (12x100 cm) and a dynamically driven simple matrix display (13x37 cm) [7, 19]. The performance of these two demonstrators is summarized in Table 8. The electrooptic material used was plasticized polyoxyethylene XVIII (Fig. 26). 

Cascaded prism and superprism devices have been fabricated [8,9,116-118] however, the electrooptic materials used in such devices required significant voltages to achieve wide angle beam steering. If current electro-optic materials (r33 300 pm/V) can be effectively incorporated into etalon and cascaded prism devices, operations such as optical switching can be accomplished with digital level drive voltages. 

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