Laser-addressed liquid crystal light valve with dichroic dye added as a laser beam absorber
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 54 (3) , 1552-1558
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.332136
Abstract
A dichroic dye was added to smectic A liquid crystals as an absorber of laser energy to eliminate the need to conduct heat from an external absorber to the liquid crystal layer. It was found that the dichroic ratio of the added dye is an important factor in the recording mechanism of the liquid crystal. The resolution of the written image was improved by doping with a dye having a large dichroic ratio.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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