Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 8, 081203(2017)
Entanglement-free determination of pretilt angles of twisted nematic liquid-crystal cells by phase measurement
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Fig. 1. Coordinates of the incident light and the schematic diagram of the TN medium within a TN cell.
Fig. 2. (Color online) Phase difference of the TN cell versus the incident angle by varying the pretilt angle as a parameter.
Fig. 3. Data diagram of the pretilt angle versus the extreme angle.
Fig. 4. Configuration of the out-of-plane crystal rotation for the measurements.
Fig. 6. Solid curves are the results of the calculation by the extended Jones matrix method.
Table 1. TN LC Cell Parameters
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Refractive Index Cell gap (μm) Twist angle (deg.) 1.600 3.3 90 ( ) 1.490 Wavelength (nm) 633
Table 2. Experimental Results: Pretilt Angle Measured by OPR Methods
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Authors Pretilt angle (deg.) Birecki and Kahn [ 7 ]Wang and Yang [ 9 ]This work
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Che-Wen Chiang, Ping-Chun Lin, Kei-Hsiung Yang, "Entanglement-free determination of pretilt angles of twisted nematic liquid-crystal cells by phase measurement," Chin. Opt. Lett. 15, 081203 (2017)
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Category: Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology
Received: Apr. 19, 2017
Accepted: May. 19, 2017
Published Online: Jul. 20, 2018
The Author Email: Che-Wen Chiang (t21601@yahoo.com.tw)
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