title: Optically switchable liquid crystal photonic structures.
abstract: Photo-optic materials offer the possibility of light controlled photonic devices, intelligent and environmentally adaptive optical materials. One strategy for creating these materials is the combination of structure formation through holographic photopolymerization and the variable optical properties of liquid crystals. Holographically patterned, polymer stabilized liquid crystals (HPSLCs) have proven to be useful optical materials. By incorporating photo-optic, azobenzene-derived liquid crystal blends into such material systems, we have generated practical photoresponsive optical materials.
authors.affiliation: Anteon Corp., Dayton, Ohio 45431, USA.
authors.forename: Augustine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Urbas
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tondiglia
authors.forename: Lalgudi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Natarajan
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: Haiping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: J-H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bunning