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Liquid Crystal Waveguides, the OPD Advantage:
With this geometry we can propagate through centimeters of liquid crystal, while still exploiting the materials giant electro-optic response. This enables macroscopic tunability of optical phase.
The top plot shows optical waves (each minima corresponds to one half wave of phase delay) as a function of voltage.  The bottom plot shows total optical phase delay as a funciton of voltage and the inset shows a picture of the device. This device provided greater than one millimeter of voltage tunable optical phase, which is larger than any other technology that we are aware of.
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