Advances in ferroelectric liquid crystals for high-speed spatial-light modulators

The developed principles of optimization of the molecular structure and the mixture composition of smectic C* ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) are discussed, which significantly allow us to increase the speed of the electro-optic response in planar alignment of FLS. The achieved results reveal opportunity of construction of fast spatial light modulators with multiplexing owing to bistability with the time of electrical addressing about 1 microsecond(s) .