A study of the temporal response of a biased planar nematic liquid crystal to short (∼10 μs) voltage pulses is presented. The resulting optical phase shift varies quadratically with time during the first 2 μs after switching the voltage on and then linearly. A theoretical model is developped starting from the Leslie-Ericksen theory which describes the investigated phase modulation in the microsecond time scale.
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