Angle-independent beam steering using a liquid crystal grating with multi-resistive electrodes

Optics Communications

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 151-157

  Klaus, Werner ^a,c   Ide, Masafumi ^b   Morokawa, Shigeru ^b   Tsuchiya, Masahiro ^a   Kamiya, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CITIZEN WATCH CO LTD   (Japan)

^c Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array illuminator; Beam steering; Blazed grating; Diffractive optics; Liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MONOCHROMATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM STEERING; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; TALBOT ARRAY ILLUMINATOR;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0031146816     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00039-4     Document Type: Article

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