Cascaded liquid crystal holography for optical encryption

Zeyu Wang; Han Zhang; Xiaoheng Liu; Yunjie Dou; Wei Duan; Wei Chen; Lingling Ma; Yanqing Lu

doi:10.3788/COL202321.120003

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 12, 120003(2023)

Cascaded liquid crystal holography for optical encryption

Zeyu Wang¹, Han Zhang¹, Xiaoheng Liu¹, Yunjie Dou¹, Wei Duan^2、*, Wei Chen^1、**, Lingling Ma^1、***, and Yanqing Lu¹

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

²School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

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