Cholesteric liquid crystal depolarizer

Autor: Jianfeng Li, Haitao Liu, Yongquan Luo, Zhixue Shen, Dayong Zhang, Liu Cangli, Weiping Wang, Fei Luo
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Optical Engineering. 46:070504
ISSN: 0091-3286
DOI: 10.1117/1.2756073
Popis: The design and performance test of a cholesteric liquid crystal depolarizer (CLCD) is presented. This new depolarizer is a wedge-shaped cell filled with cholesteric liquid crystal material. By placing a CLCD in its path, the incident light beam is divided into a great number of micro beams in space, and each micro light beam has different polarization state and orientation, hence achieving the depolarization effect. Over a conventional optical depolarizer, the CLCD is easy built and insensitive to the polarization orientation of incident light.
Databáze: OpenAIRE