Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays

George F. Barrick; Philip J. Bos; Charles M. Titus; Bruce K. Winker

doi:10.1117/1.1666821

1 April 2004 Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays

George F. Barrick, Philip J. Bos, Charles M. Titus, Bruce K. Winker

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 4, (April 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1666821

Abstract

Optical phased arrays using birefringent liquid crystals can efficiently steer a laser communication beam to a small angle. The algorithm presented derives a thickness for the liquid crystal cell and computes a sequence of voltages for the device electrodes that best deflects the beam.

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George F. Barrick, Philip J. Bos, Charles M. Titus, and Bruce K. Winker "Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays," Optical Engineering 43(4), (1 April 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1666821

Published: 1 April 2004

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