Fast Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Electrooptics

摘要

Many emerging technologies, including remote learning and video teleconferencing, interactive television, desktop digital audio-video, and the World Wide Web, share a common problem: a need for ever higher data transfer rates. Owing to power dissipation limits of conventional electronics, it 'seems likely that optical encoding of data will be an important part of the solution. Nevertheless, the silicon chip will be here for a long time to come. Silicon by itself, however, is a poor choice for modulation of light with electronics. These facts of digital life are currently driving an exciting research area aimed at development of electrooptic (EO) materials capable of working with silicon to create a class of devices sometimes termed integrated optical chips.