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US 3,942,007 AGranted
Liquid crystalline image converter
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorFranklin D. Saeva
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Abstract
The optical transitions of extrinsicially optically active insoluble materials become optically active and circularly dichroic when in contact with optically negative liquid crystalline materials thereby producing unusual and highly advantageous properties. The circularly dichroic optical properties induced in the extrinsically optically active insoluble materials can be utilized for converting infrared images to visible images.
Claims5
A method for converting an infrared image to a visible image, comprising:
- a. providing a film of an optically negative liquid crystalline material in contact with an insoluble material;
- said optically negative liquid crystalline material having a reflection band with center wavelength .lambda..sub.o ;
- said insoluble material, when in contact with said optically negative liquid crystalline material, becoming extrinsically optically active and having an absorption band in the visible within which circular dichroism is induced;
- b. impinging one side of said film of optically negative liquid crystalline material with imagewise configured infrared radiation to change the position of said reflection band with center wavelength .lambda..sub.o ;
- c. providing on the other side of said film of optically negative liquid crystalline material, in turn, a quarter waveplate and a linear polarizer;
- the slow axis of said quarter waveplate and the axis of polarization of said linear polarizer having an angular relationship of about 45.degree.;
- whereby an image corresponding to said infrared image is observed within the wavelength range of said light absorption band.
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