Applying a Self-Made Automobile Heterodyne Interferometer to Measure the Parameters of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 694874, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/694874 Research Article Applying a Self-Made Automobile Heterodyne Interferometer to Measure the Parameters of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Shinn-Fwu Wang, Pei-Cheng Ke, Wesley Lai, Hao Ma, Yi-Zhan Su, and Jyh-Shyan Chiu Department of Electronic Engineering, Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, No. 229 Chien-Hsin Road, Taoyuan, Jhongli City 320, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Shinn-Fwu Wang, sfwangking@ Received 13 July 2012; Revised 28 September 2012; Accepted 5 October 2012 Academic Editor: Ashish K. Prajapati Copyright © 2012 Shinn-Fwu Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer with a closed control loop is presented. In addition, we will apply the self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer to measure the parameters of optically compensated twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN LC). It is worthy to be mentioned that the self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer has a compact size because all the optical components are installed in the mechanism of the system. Besides, the self-made automobile heterodyne interferometer has some much more merits, for example, automobile control, a simple setup, in real-time test, reliability, and so forth. Besides, it is very stable because of its common optical path insensitive to environmental disturbances. And its feasibility is demonstrated. 1. Introduction [8] by phase-sensitive heterod