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Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer
This paper presents an electrically tunable Fresnel lens in a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell fabricated by using a Sagnac interferometer. When the Fresnel-patterned green beam, formed by the Sagnac interferometer, is irradiated on the azo-dye doped liquid crystal mixture, the azo-dye molecules...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6780277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11091448 |
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author | Huang, Bing-Yau Lin, Tsung-Hsien Jhuang, Tian-Yi Kuo, Chie-Tong |
author_facet | Huang, Bing-Yau Lin, Tsung-Hsien Jhuang, Tian-Yi Kuo, Chie-Tong |
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description | This paper presents an electrically tunable Fresnel lens in a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell fabricated by using a Sagnac interferometer. When the Fresnel-patterned green beam, formed by the Sagnac interferometer, is irradiated on the azo-dye doped liquid crystal mixture, the azo-dye molecules undergo trans–cis photoisomerization and then generate the photo-alignment effect in the bright (odd) zones. The director of the liquid crystal molecules in the odd zones reorients the direction perpendicular to the polarization direction of the linearly polarized green beam. The various structures of liquid crystals in the odd and even zones will result in a phase difference and thus, a Fresnel lens can be generated. The experimental results show that the proposed Fresnel lens has a high diffraction efficiency of 31.5% under an applied alternating-currents (AC) voltage. The focal length of the Fresnel lens can also be tuned by thermally erasing the photo-alignment effect of the azo dyes and rewriting by a different Fresnel-like pattern. |
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spelling | pubmed-67802772019-10-30 Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer Huang, Bing-Yau Lin, Tsung-Hsien Jhuang, Tian-Yi Kuo, Chie-Tong Polymers (Basel) Article This paper presents an electrically tunable Fresnel lens in a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell fabricated by using a Sagnac interferometer. When the Fresnel-patterned green beam, formed by the Sagnac interferometer, is irradiated on the azo-dye doped liquid crystal mixture, the azo-dye molecules undergo trans–cis photoisomerization and then generate the photo-alignment effect in the bright (odd) zones. The director of the liquid crystal molecules in the odd zones reorients the direction perpendicular to the polarization direction of the linearly polarized green beam. The various structures of liquid crystals in the odd and even zones will result in a phase difference and thus, a Fresnel lens can be generated. The experimental results show that the proposed Fresnel lens has a high diffraction efficiency of 31.5% under an applied alternating-currents (AC) voltage. The focal length of the Fresnel lens can also be tuned by thermally erasing the photo-alignment effect of the azo dyes and rewriting by a different Fresnel-like pattern. MDPI 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6780277/ /pubmed/31487836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11091448 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Huang, Bing-Yau Lin, Tsung-Hsien Jhuang, Tian-Yi Kuo, Chie-Tong Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title | Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title_full | Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title_fullStr | Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title_full_unstemmed | Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title_short | Electrically Tunable Fresnel Lens in Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals Fabricated by a Sagnac Interferometer |
title_sort | electrically tunable fresnel lens in twisted-nematic liquid crystals fabricated by a sagnac interferometer |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6780277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11091448 |
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