Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 37, Issue 11, 1411(2022)
Fast and large-angle optical beam deflection based on liquid crystal polarization grating
Beam steering is widely used in aerospace, laser communication, vehicle-mounted ridar, optical information processing, biomedicine and military confrontation. Non-mechanical beam steering has received intensive attention. Liquid-crystal-polymer-based polarization grating can realize high-efficient, large-angle beam steering with merits of simple and low-cost fabrication, and thus has been gradually adopted in non-mechanical beam steering. In this paper, two circularly polarized holographic optical paths are used to fabricate the liquid-crystal-polymer-based polarization grating of different pitches, respectively. The measured diffraction efficiency reaches over 99.3%. Multiple liquid-crystal-polymer-based gratings are cascaded and then stacked with liquid crystal polymer/ferroelectric liquid crystal/liquid crystal polymer waveplates to achieve fast response (70 μs) and large angle 4-channel beam deflections.
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Fang YUAN, Qing-gui TAN, Guang-yao WANG, Rui YUAN, Wei HU. Fast and large-angle optical beam deflection based on liquid crystal polarization grating[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2022, 37(11): 1411
Category: Research Articles
Received: Jul. 11, 2022
Accepted: --
Published Online: Nov. 3, 2022
The Author Email: Wei HU (huwei@nju.edu.cn)