Liquid crystal waveguides: New devices enabled by >1000 waves of optical phase control

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7618, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Davis, Scott R ^a   Farca, George ^a   Rommel, Scott D ^a   Johnson, Seth ^a   Anderson, Michael H ^a  

^a VESCENT PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic waveguides; LC optics; Liquid crystal waveguides; Non mechanical beamsteerer; Tunable laser; Tunable micro ring

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERER; ELECTRO-OPTIC WAVEGUIDES; LC OPTICS; MICRORINGS; TUNABLE LASERS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LENS ANTENNAS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; RESISTORS; TECHNOLOGY; TIME SWITCHES; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951703023     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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