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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2023
Seurat Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Selim Elhadj, Lexington, MA (US);
Seurat Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
A monolithic transmissive or reflective light valve system able to withstand operation with high optical fluence and high average power lasers is described. The light valve includes a liquid crystal layer on an alignment layer, a first epitaxial doped semiconductor transparent electrode on a photoconductor layer made of a first wide bandgap or ultrawide bandgap semi- insulating semiconductor layer (or wafer). A second epitaxial semiconductor transparent electrode layer brackets the light valve and includes a second wide bandgap or ultrawide bandgap semi-insulating, or conductive semiconductor layer (or wafer). In some embodiments, the doped epitaxial or ion implanted transparent electrode and photoconductor layers have matched coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and further matched CTE to the second wide bandgap material bracketing the light valve. In some embodiments, the transparent electrode and photoconductor layers have matched index of refraction, along with matched photoexcitation levels.