Electrooptical wide-angle beam deflector based on fringing-field-induced refractive inhomogeneity in a liquid crystal layer

B. Apter; E. Bahat-Treidel; U. Efron

Electrooptical wide-angle beam deflector based on fringing-field-induced refractive inhomogeneity in a liquid crystal layer

B. Apter, E. Bahat-Treidel, U. Efron

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Abstract

A controllable, refractive, electrooptical liquid crystal (LC) beam deflector was studied both theoretically and experimentally. The principle of operation of this deflector is based on the generation of a high gradient of refractive index in a thick LC layer by the fringing field between two lateral electrodes in a simple 3-electrode LC cell. A Gaussian laser beam, focused into the narrow region at the electrode gap was effectively deflected by the refractive index gradient. Large deflection angles of ∼15° as well as a high deflection efficiency of 98% were demonstrated experimentally backed by a theoretical analysis.

Original language	English
Pages	240-243
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 1 Dec 2004
Event	2004 23rd IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Proceedings - Tel-Aviv, Israel Duration: 6 Sep 2004 → 7 Sep 2004

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Conference	2004 23rd IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Proceedings
Country/Territory	Israel
City	Tel-Aviv
Period	6/09/04 → 7/09/04

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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2004. 240-243 Paper presented at 2004 23rd IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Proceedings, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

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Electrooptical wide-angle beam deflector based on fringing-field-induced refractive inhomogeneity in a liquid crystal layer

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