Controlled liquid crystal optical polarizer method and apparatus
First Claim
1. A method of making a liquid crystal material polarizer comprising continuously casting an emulsion of liquid crystal material in a containment medium, and stretching such cast material to form elongate volumes of liquid crystal in such containment medium.
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Abstract
A controllable liquid crystal polarizer has nematic liquid crystal and pleochroic dye in plural, parallel, elongate volumes in a sheet-like containment medium. Polarization effectiveness is variable as a function of electric field. A method of making the polarizer includes continuously forming a sheet-like film of a containment medium having a plurality of volumes of liquid crystal and pleochroic dye therein, and during curing of the film, stretching it to elongate the volumes.
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25 Claims
- 1. A method of making a liquid crystal material polarizer comprising continuously casting an emulsion of liquid crystal material in a containment medium, and stretching such cast material to form elongate volumes of liquid crystal in such containment medium.
- 13. A liquid crystal polarizer made by the process of continuously casting an emulsion of liquid crystal material in a containment medium, and stretching such cast material to form elongate volumes of liquid crystal material in such containment medium.
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