Complete polarization control of light from a liquid crystal spatial light modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 364-376

  Moreno, Ignacio ^a   Davis, Jeffrey A ^b   Hernandez, Travis M ^b   Cottrell, Don M ^b   Sand, David ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS; POLARIZATION;

DIFFRACTED LIGHT; DOUBLE MODULATION; JONES MATRIX; LIGHT BEAM; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; PARALLEL-ALIGNED NEMATIC-LIQUID-CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; PARTIAL POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION MODULATION; POLARIZATION STATE; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; TRANSMISSION MODE; TRANSMITTED BEAMS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; ZERO ORDER;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84855438995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000364     Document Type: Article

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