Stretchable liquid-crystal blue-phase gels by Castles, F, Morris, S, Hung, J, Qasim, M, Wright, A, Nosheen, S, Choi, S, Outram, B, Elston, S, Burgess, C, Hill, L, Wilkinson, T, Coles, H

“…An important subset of these materials exhibit rubber-like elasticity, combining the optical properties of liquid crystals with the mechanical properties of rubber. …”

Stretchable liquid-crystal blue-phase gels by Castles, F, Morris, S, Hung, J, Qasim, M, Wright, A, Nosheen, S, Choi, S, Outram, B, Elston, S, Burgess, C, Hill, L, Wilkinson, T, Coles, H

“…An important subset of these materials exhibit rubber-like elasticity, combining the optical properties of liquid crystals with the mechanical properties of rubber. …”

Polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications by Morris, S, Hands, P, Findeisen-Tandel, S, Cole, R, Wilkinson, T, Coles, H

Code 1 Dynamic phase measurement of fast liquid crystal phase modulators by Fells, J, Salter, P, Welch, C, Jin, Y, Wilkinson, T, Booth, M, Mehl, G, Elston, S, Morris, S

“…A flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal phase modulator is used as the test device. …”

Dynamic holographic interconnects that use ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial light modulators. by O'Brien, D, Mears, R, Wilkinson, T, Crossland, W

Printed photonic arrays from self-organized chiral nematic liquid crystals by Gardiner, D, Hsiao, W, Morris, S, Hands, P, Wilkinson, T, Hutchings, I, Coles, H

Dynamic response of large tilt-angle flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal modulators by Fells, J, Welch, C, Yip, W, Elston, S, Booth, M, Mehl, G, Wilkinson, T, Morris, S

Data File 1: Dynamic response of large tilt-angle flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal modulators by Fells, J, Welch, C, Yip, C, Elston, S, Booth, M, Mehl, G, Wilkinson, T, Morris, S

Fast and low loss flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal phase modulator with a chiral nematic reflector by Wang, X, Fells, J, Elston, S, Yip, C, Ali, T, Lin, J, Welch, C, Mehl, G, Booth, M, Wilkinson, T, Morris, S

Fast and low loss flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal phase modulator with a chiral nematic reflector by Wang, X, Fells, J, Yip, W, Ali, T, Lin, J, Welch, C, Mehl, G, Booth, M, Wilkinson, T, Morris, S, Elston, S

“…In this paper, we demonstrate a flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal phase-only device that uses a chiral nematic reflector to achieve full 2 phase modulation. …”

Electrical addressing of polymer stabilized hyper-twisted chiral nematic liquid crystals with interdigitated electrodes: Experiment and model by Lorenz, A, Gardiner, D, Morris, S, Castles, F, Qasim, M, Choi, S, Kim, W, Coles, H, Wilkinson, T

“…Electro-optic switching in short-pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals was studied and the relative contributions of flexoelectric and dielectric coupling were investigated: polymer stabilization was found to effectively suppress unwanted textural transitions of the chiral nematic liquid crystal and thereby enhance the electro-optical performance (high optical contrast for visible light, a near ideal optical hysteresis, fast electro-optic response). …”

Scale-invariant binary phase-only matched filter using a ferroelectric-liquid-crystal spatial light modulator. by Wilkinson, T, O'Brien, D, Mears, R

Dataset 1: Robust measurement of flexoelectro-optic switching with different surface alignments by O'Neill, J, Fells, J, Welch, C, Mehl, G, Yip, C, Wilkinson, T, Booth, M, Elston, S, Morris, S

Subjects: “…Liquid crystals…”

Control of a free-space adaptive optical interconnect using a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator for beam steering by Henderson, C, Robertson, B, Leyva, D, Wilkinson, T, O'Brien, D, Faulkner, G

“…An adaptive beam position control system is reported, for use in alignment correction for free-space parallel optical interconnects at the board-to-board level. A liquid-crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) displaying binary phase gratings is used as a diffractive optical element to steer the beam. …”

Generation of 3-Dimensional Polymer Structures in Liquid Crystalline Devices using Direct Laser Writing by Tartan, C, Salter, P, Wilkinson, T, Booth, M, Morris, S, Elston, S

“…We show that the laser written polymer structures retain the optical properties of the liquid crystal resin at the point of laser exposure. Thus, birefringent polymer structures can be written, with the orientation of the optic axis tuned during fabrication through switching the liquid crystal with an applied electric field. …”

Design and analysis of an adaptive board-to-board dynamic holographic interconnect. by O'Brien, D, Faulkner, G, Wilkinson, T, Robertson, B, Leyva, D

“…Routing is achieved with a holographic crossbar that has a ferroelectric liquid-crystal spatial light modulator to display binary phase computer-generated holograms. …”

Adaptive optical interconnect using an FLC SLM by Wilkinson, T, Henderson, C, Leyva, D, Robertson, B, O'Brien, D, Faulkner, G

“…One possible approach to avoiding these constraints is to use a reconfigurable liquid crystal phase hologram as a beam steering element to compensate for movement in the boards and maintain the optical data path.…”

Control of a free space adaptive optical interconnect using a VCSEL array transmitter and FLC SLM for beam steering by Henderson, C, Robertson, B, Leyva, D, Wilkinson, T, O'Brien, D, Faulkner, G

“…A demonstrator system for a free space adaptive optical interconnect is reported in which beam position at the receiver plane is maintained using feedback control, given disturbances to the alignment of the optical system. A Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) displaying binary phase gratings is used to steer the beam. …”

Free space optical interconnect using an FLC SLM for active beam steering and wave front correction by Leyva, D, Robertson, B, Henderson, C, Wilkinson, T, O'Brien, D, Faulkner, G

“…The diffractive structure is displayed on a ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator. Simulations and theoretical discussions of the performance of the system are shown and analysed.…”

Robust measurement of flexoelectro-optic switching with different surface alignments by Sandford O’Neill, J, Fells, J, Welch, C, Yip, W, Wilkinson, T, Booth, M, Elston, S, Morris, S

“…The alignment of chiral nematic liquid crystals in the so-called uniform lying helix geometry allows for the observation and exploitation of the flexoelectro-optic effect. …”