@inproceedings{5a42a639987c4cb99d569aaff382c453,
title = "Super-thick and large areal size monocrystalline cholesteric and Blue-phase liquid crystals for ultrafast switching and image processing",
abstract = "A review of recent advances in molecular assembly of liquid crystalline chiral photonic crystals is presented, particularly on fabrication of extraordinarily thick [>2 mm] cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC), and large-areal size monocrystalline Blue-phase liquid crystals (BPLC). CLC{\textquoteright}s as 1-D chiral photonic crystals possess large ultrafast optical nonlinearity suitable for self-compression, polarization switching and modulation of complex vector beams. These super thick and highly nonlinear CLC{\textquoteright}s are estimated to be capable of all optical switching [π- phase shift] at sub-picosecond (~0.1 x 10-12 s) speed with low threshold energy fluence of ~ 0.25 μJ/cm2. Large areal size monocrystalline BPLC{\textquoteright}s will preserve the phase front uniformity in free-space image processing and yield better efficiency, resolution, and image/signal qualities than their typical polycrystalline counterparts.",
author = "Khoo, {I. C.} and Lin, {Tsung Hsien} and Chen, {C. W.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Liquid Crystals XXVIII 2024 ; Conference date: 18-08-2024 Through 21-08-2024",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1117/12.3029716",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Khoo, {Iam Choon}",
booktitle = "Liquid Crystals XXVIII",
address = "United States",
}