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    • 10. 发明授权
    • Ferroelectric liquid crystal light doubler with temperature and voltage controlled tilt angle
    • US06198523B1
    • 2001-03-06
    • US09429246
    • 1999-10-28
    • Rene P. Helbing
    • Rene P. Helbing
    • C09K1902
    • G02B5/3025G02F1/133382G02F1/13471G02F1/141G09G3/36G09G3/3614G09G3/3651G09G2300/0809G09G2320/041G09G2320/0606G09G2320/066
    • A ferroelectric liquid crystal-based switchable half-wave plate with improved alignment control, a ferroelectric liquid crystal-based light valve system with improved contrast control, and a method of improving contrast in a ferroelectric liquid crystal-based light valve system. The switchable half-wave plate with improved alignment control includes a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal material sandwiched between a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode. The switchable half-wave plate also includes an electric field direction switching circuit configured to switch the electric field across the liquid crystal material between the forward direction and the reverse direction in response to a control signal. The switchable half-wave plate additionally includes an electric field magnitude control circuit to adjust the tilt angle in response to a signal received at a alignment control signal input. The ferroelectric liquid crystal-based light valve system according to the invention includes at least one ferroelectric liquid crystal-based spatial light modulator, an analyzer having a direction of minimum transmissivity, a ferroelectric liquid crystal-based switchable half-wave plate, and an adjustable voltage source. The voltage source is configured to adjust the magnitude of the electric field in at least one of the forward direction and reverse direction as the output voltage level is adjusted in response to a user interface or a light intensity sensor and a feedback circuit. The method of improving contrast in a ferroelectric light valve system according to the invention includes providing a ferroelectric liquid crystal-based spatial light modulator, an analyzer, a ferroelectric liquid crystal based switchable half-wave plate, and a video signal. In response to the video signal, a pixel electric field across each of the plurality of pixels is switched. Also an electric field across the switchable half-wave plate is periodically switched and the magnitude of the half-wave plate electric field is adjusted to align one of the first and the second half-wave plate director angles with one of the first and the second modulator director angles.