Electrically tunable holographic polymer templated blue phase liquid crystal grating

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/6/064203

Abstract In this paper, we demonstrate an alternative approach to fabricating an electrically tunable holographic polymer templated blue phase liquid crystal grating. This grating is obtained by preforming a polymer template comprised of periodic fringes, and then refilling it with a blue phase liquid crystal. Compared with conventional holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal gratings, our grating can remarkably reduce its switching voltage from 200 V to 43 V while maintaining a sub-millisecond response time. The holographic polymer templated blue phase liquid crystal (HPTBPLC) grating is free from electrode patterning, thus leading to a lower cost and more flexible applications.

Keywords: holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal blue phase phase grating

Received: 14 September 2014
Revised: 19 November 2014
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PACS:	42.40.Eq	(Holographic optical elements; holographic gratings)
	61.30.Mp	(Blue phases and other defect-phases)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB328804), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61307028), the Funds from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant Nos. 11JC1405300, 13ZR1420000, and 14ZR1422300), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. XDJK 2011C047).

Corresponding Authors: Chen Chao-Ping, Li Yan
E-mail: ccp@sjtu.edu.cn;yan.li@sjtu.edu.cn

About author: 42.40.Eq; 61.30.Mp

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He Zheng-Hong (何正红), Chen Chao-Ping (陈超平), Zhu Ji-Liang (朱吉亮), Yuan Ya-Chao (袁亚超), Li Yan (李燕), Hu Wei (胡伟), Li Xiao (李潇), Li Hong-Jing (李洪婧), Lu Jian-Gang (陆建刚), Su Yi-Kai (苏翼凯) Electrically tunable holographic polymer templated blue phase liquid crystal grating 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 064203

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