Asymmetrical phase difference distribution properties of a liquid-crystal micro-lens array with tetragonally-patterned electrodes

Marenori Kawamura; Saki Kondo; Kento Nakamura; Susumu Sato

doi:10.1117/12.2187846

5 September 2015 Asymmetrical phase difference distribution properties of a liquid-crystal micro-lens array with tetragonally-patterned electrodes

Marenori Kawamura, Saki Kondo, Kento Nakamura, Susumu Sato

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Proceedings Volume 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX; 95650V (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187846
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Liquid crystal (LC) director distributions and optical phase profiles in LC micro-lens-array (LC-MLA) are studied by using a three-dimensional (3D) numerical calculation method. The LC-MLA design employs twodivided and tetragonally-patterned electrode structure in a flat nematic LC cell. The possibilities of prism and lenslike phase difference distributions in the rectangular aperture region of the LC-MLA are discussed. The LC molecular orientation distributions in the rectangular region can be estimated and its phase profile can be predicted fairly well by the calculations.

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Marenori Kawamura, Saki Kondo, Kento Nakamura, and Susumu Sato "Asymmetrical phase difference distribution properties of a liquid-crystal micro-lens array with tetragonally-patterned electrodes", Proc. SPIE 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX, 95650V (5 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187846

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