Continuously controllable, wide-angle liquid crystal beam deflector based on the transversal field effect in a three-electrode cell

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Apter, Boris ^a   Bahat Treidel, Eldad ^b   Efron, Uzi ^a,b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beam deflection; Fringing field; Liquid crystal; Refractive index gradient; Transversal field

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER BEAMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM DEFLECTION; FRINGING FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL BEAM DEFLECTOR; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENT; TRANSVERSAL FIELD;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 24044431933     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1911125     Document Type: Article

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