Patent ID: 8545717

Claim:
A composition for forming an optical component, comprising 0.1-90 parts by weight of a curable dichroic dye and 10-98.85 parts by weight of a curable liquid crystal compound, wherein the curable liquid crystal compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following Formulas (1) to (3): wherein the curable dichroic dye comprises curable dichroic dyes having the following structural formula: in the structural formula of the dichroic dye, D represents a dichroic structure, M represents a liquid crystalline structure, R1 represents an end reactive functional group, L1 and L represent a linking structure to link R1, and D to each other, and the block comprises one liquid crystalline structure M and 1 to 3 dichroic structures D1, D2 and D3, provided that if the block comprises at least two dichroic structures, the dichroic structures may be linked to each other, or linked to another dichroic structure or the liquid crystalline structure via a linking structure L, M is liked to the adjacent dichroic structures D1, D2 and/or D3 through the linking structure L, wherein there is no limitation on the linking order of the liquid crystalline structure M and the dichroic structure D, and the dichroic structures D1, D2 and D3 are different from each other.