Wilkinson, T.D., Henderson, C., Gil Leyva, D., Ghannam, R. and Crossland, W.A. (2006) Non-display applications and the next generation of liquid crystal over silicon technology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 364(1847), pp. 2721-2732. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1849)
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Abstract
The next generation of applications for liquid crystal (LC) over silicon technology will be non-display oriented systems such as adaptive optical interconnects, optical switches and optical image processors. These new non-display applications have a different set of material parameters, which means that existing display-based materials are not entirely optimal. This is particularly the case when the application is driven by phase modulation at high frame rates (more than 1 kHz). An example of such a non-display application is in adaptive optical interconnects. Optical data transmission between printed circuit boards is becoming more and more important as the data rate in electronic systems increases into the gigahertz region. One way of avoiding the data bottlenecks in board to board interconnects is to use optical links to transmit the data. Recent research into free-space optical links has shown that a high level of manufacturing tolerance must be used to maintain the link. However, one way of avoiding these limitations is to use a reconfigurable LC phase hologram as a beam-steering element to compensate for movement between the boards and maintain the optical data path.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Ghannam, Professor Rami |
| Authors: | Wilkinson, T.D., Henderson, C., Gil Leyva, D., Ghannam, R., and Crossland, W.A. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering |
| Journal Name: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
| Publisher: | Royal Society |
| ISSN: | 1364-503X |
| ISSN (Online): | 1471-2962 |
| Published Online: | 21 August 2006 |
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