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Light-induced director axis reorientation in a dye-doped ferroelectric liquid crystal and its application to self-aligned spatial filtering

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The light-induced director axis reorientation in a surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal is investigated experimentally. Several-order-of-magnitude enhancement in light sensitivity and response speed of the director axis reorientation is achieved by incorporation of dichroic dyes into the liquid crystal. A novel scheme for self-aligned spatial filtering by use of the dye-doped liquid crystal is also proposed and is demonstrated with milliwatt laser powers and millisecond updating times.

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