Principal I-CORE Technology, LLC Louisville, Colorado
An opposite direction short pulse insertion to the main pulse drive form of an SSD (Smectic Single Domain) liquid crystal panel has revealed significant shortening of decay time from 250 microseconds with a simple pulse to 50 microseconds with the short opposite direction pulse at 8 V, 1 ms main pulse duration preserving its in-plane only retardation switching property, which provides fast response phase modulation and high diffraction efficiency.