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

Fang YUAN1, Qing-gui TAN1,2, Guang-yao WANG3, Rui YUAN3, and Wei HU3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Xi’an Institute of Space Radio Technology,Xi’an 710100,China
  • 2National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Microwave,Xi’an 710100,China
  • 3College of Engineering and Applied Sciences,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,China
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    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

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 11, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Nov. 3, 2022

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

    DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2022-0240

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