Electro-Steering Tapered Fiber-Optic Device with Liquid Crystal Cladding

Table 3

Calculated time response of LC devices.

Liquid crystal device		Average response time of LC device for 190 V (ms)
		1 (Hz)		2 (Hz)		5 (Hz)		10 (Hz)
		On	Off	On	Off	On	Off	On	Off
6CHBT	Orthogonal	12.8	7.23	11.7	7.20	10.3	5.17	7.83	5.17
E7	Orthogonal	5.41	7.67	4.83	7.67	3.96	3.83	3.90	5.43
	Parallel	2.50	5.00	2.33	3.00	1.67	2.33	1.10	2.23
	Twist	5.40	5.00	4.17	5.00	1.67	2.17	1.70	1.43

Measurement error is below 5%.