Liquid crystal depolarizer based on photoalignment technology

Bing-Yan Wei; Peng Chen; Shi-Jun Ge; Li-Chao Zhang; Wei Hu; Yan-Qing Lu

doi:10.1364/prj.4.000070

Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 0070(2016)

Liquid crystal depolarizer based on photoalignment technology

Bing-Yan Wei¹, Peng Chen¹, Shi-Jun Ge¹, Li-Chao Zhang², Wei Hu^1、*, and Yan-Qing Lu¹

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²Thorlabs China, Shanghai, 200331, China

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Paper Information

Received: Feb. 4, 2016

Accepted: Feb. 23, 2016

Published Online: Sep. 28, 2016

The Author Email: Wei Hu (huwei@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/prj.4.000070

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