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Liquid crystal modulator with ultra-wide dynamic range and adjustable driving voltage Xing-jun Wang, 1 Zhang-di Huang, 1 Jing Feng, 1 Xiang-fei Chen, 1 Xiao Liang, 2 and Yan-qing Lu 1* 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China 2 Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China * Corresponding author: yqlu@nju.edu.cn Abstract: We demonstrated a reflective-type liquid crystal (LC) intensity modulator in 1550 nm telecomm band. An effective way to compensate the residual phase of a LC cell is proposed. With the adjustment of a true zero- order quarter wave plate and enhanced by total internal reflection induced birefringence, over 53 dB dynamic range was achieved, which is much desired for some high-end optical communication, infrared scene projection applications. In addition, the driving voltages were decreased and adjustable. Mechanical and spectral tolerance measurements show that our LC modulator is quite stable. Further applications of our experimental setup were discussed including bio-sensors and high speed modulators. ?2008 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (230.3720) Liquid-crystal devices; (060.2340) Fiber optics components References and links 1. D. K. Yang and S. T. Wu, Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices (John Wiley Sons, England, 2006), Chap. 12. 2. R. James, F. A. Fernández, S. E. Day, M. Komarcevic, and W. A. Crossland, “Modelling of the diffraction efficiency and polarization sensitivity for a liquid crystal 2-D spatial light modulator for reconfigurable beam steering,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 24, 2464–2473 (2007). 3. W. Dickson, G. A. Wurtz, P. R. Evans, R. J. Pollard, A. V. Zayats, Electronically controlled surface plasmon dispersion and optical transmission through metallic hole arrays using liquid crystal, Nano Lett. 8, 281-286 (2008) 4. S. Manzanera, P. M. Prieto, D