• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 4, Issue 2, 0070 (2016)
Bing-Yan Wei1, Peng Chen1, Shi-Jun Ge1, Li-Chao Zhang2, Wei Hu1、*, and Yan-Qing Lu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 2Thorlabs China, Shanghai, 200331, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/prj.4.000070 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Bing-Yan Wei, Peng Chen, Shi-Jun Ge, Li-Chao Zhang, Wei Hu, Yan-Qing Lu. Liquid crystal depolarizer based on photoalignment technology[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(2): 0070 Copy Citation Text show less
    Illustration of the LC depolarizer. Different directions of optic axes are indicated by different gray scales. The inset depicts the LC orientations in the red circle.
    Fig. 1. Illustration of the LC depolarizer. Different directions of optic axes are indicated by different gray scales. The inset depicts the LC orientations in the red circle.
    Flow sheet of the exposure process. Images in green rectangles are exposure patterns for each step; images in red rectangles present the accumulated polarization information correspondingly.
    Fig. 2. Flow sheet of the exposure process. Images in green rectangles are exposure patterns for each step; images in red rectangles present the accumulated polarization information correspondingly.
    Micrograph of the LC depolarizer, with the arrows indicating the directions of the analyzer and polarizer. Scale bar is 100 μm.
    Fig. 3. Micrograph of the LC depolarizer, with the arrows indicating the directions of the analyzer and polarizer. Scale bar is 100 μm.
    DOP results at different incident polarization. Blue dots stand for the DOP for ASE source; red dots stand for those of the 1550 nm laser.
    Fig. 4. DOP results at different incident polarization. Blue dots stand for the DOP for ASE source; red dots stand for those of the 1550 nm laser.
    Bing-Yan Wei, Peng Chen, Shi-Jun Ge, Li-Chao Zhang, Wei Hu, Yan-Qing Lu. Liquid crystal depolarizer based on photoalignment technology[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(2): 0070
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