Liquid-crystal blazed-grating beam deflector

Liquid-crystal blazed-grating beam deflector.

A transmission-type nonmechanical multiple-angle beam-steering device that uses liquid-crystal blazed grating has been developed. Sixteen steering angles with a contrast ratio of 18 has been demonstrated. A detailed analysis of the liquid-crystal and poly(methyl methacrylate) blazed-grating deflector was carried out to provide guidance during the deflector's development. A manufacturing offset ...

Demonstration of a nonmagnetic blazed-grating atomic beam splitter.

We demonstrate a coherent atomic beam splitter for metastable helium atoms, based on the diffraction of atomic matter waves from a blazed phase grating. The beam splitter is created by driving the two transitions of a three-level V system with differentially detuned standing light waves that have a relative spatial phase shift of pi/2. The light f ields create a potential that is approximately ...

Polarization beam splitter using a binary blazed grating coupler.

A novel polarization beam splitter using a two-layer grating coupler is proposed and demonstrated. It can directly couple the normally incident light from fiber into two separate waveguides according to their polarization states while splitting them. It realizes high coupling efficiency and a good extinction ratio by using binary blazed grating couplers. The coupling length is less than 14 micr...

An Electrooptically Controlled Liquid-Crystal Diffraction Grating

Diffraction properties of transmission binary blazed grating

The properties of binary blazed grating were theoretically analyzed with finite-difference time -domain (FDTD) method. The diffraction efficiencies and diffraction angles of –1, 0, and +1 order for the grating varying with wavelength, grating structure, and the etch depth were studied when the incident angle was 30°. The numerical simulations revealed that the binary blazed grating presented hi...