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Laser-Written Tunable Liquid Crystal Aberration Correctors

[Image: see text] In this Article, we present a series of novel laser-written liquid crystal (LC) devices for aberration control for applications in beam shaping or aberration correction through adaptive optics. Each transparent LC device can correct for a chosen aberration mode with continuous grey...

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Autores principales: Xu, Alec, Nourshargh, Camron, Salter, Patrick S., He, Chao, Elston, Steve J., Booth, Martin J., Morris, Stephen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2023
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10515613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37743939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00907
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author Xu, Alec
Nourshargh, Camron
Salter, Patrick S.
He, Chao
Elston, Steve J.
Booth, Martin J.
Morris, Stephen M.
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description [Image: see text] In this Article, we present a series of novel laser-written liquid crystal (LC) devices for aberration control for applications in beam shaping or aberration correction through adaptive optics. Each transparent LC device can correct for a chosen aberration mode with continuous greyscale tuning up to a total magnitude of more than 2π radians phase difference peak to peak at a wavelength of λ = 660 nm. For the purpose of demonstration, we present five different devices for the correction of five independent Zernike polynomial modes (although the technique could readily be used to manufacture devices based on other modes). Each device is operated by a single electrode pair tuned between 0 and 10 V. These devices have potential as a low-cost alternative to spatial light modulators for applications where a low-order aberration correction is sufficient and transmissive geometries are required.
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spelling pubmed-105156132023-09-23 Laser-Written Tunable Liquid Crystal Aberration Correctors Xu, Alec Nourshargh, Camron Salter, Patrick S. He, Chao Elston, Steve J. Booth, Martin J. Morris, Stephen M. ACS Photonics [Image: see text] In this Article, we present a series of novel laser-written liquid crystal (LC) devices for aberration control for applications in beam shaping or aberration correction through adaptive optics. Each transparent LC device can correct for a chosen aberration mode with continuous greyscale tuning up to a total magnitude of more than 2π radians phase difference peak to peak at a wavelength of λ = 660 nm. For the purpose of demonstration, we present five different devices for the correction of five independent Zernike polynomial modes (although the technique could readily be used to manufacture devices based on other modes). Each device is operated by a single electrode pair tuned between 0 and 10 V. These devices have potential as a low-cost alternative to spatial light modulators for applications where a low-order aberration correction is sufficient and transmissive geometries are required. American Chemical Society 2023-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10515613/ /pubmed/37743939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00907 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10515613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37743939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00907
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