Optical devices with cascaded liquid crystal elements

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2004-05-09

2010-06-08

Thompson, Timothy J (Department: 2873)

Optical: systems and elements

Optical modulator

Light wave temporal modulation

C359S245000, C359S238000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07733556

ABSTRACT:
An optical beam processing device with two serially disposed birefringent elements, each element having its own direction of orientation. At least one element is pixelated with electrodes activated by control signals. The directions of orientation of the elements are aligned such that the phase shift imparted to the beam by an unactivated pixel of one element, cancels the phase shift imparted to the beam by the other element, such that the beam traversing that pixel undergoes zero phase shift. An appropriate control signal adds a phase shift to the beam passing through that pixel, so as to generate an overall phase shift through the device for any desired wavelength, which could not be readily achieved by either of the elements alone. The resulting device is thus able to provide switchable phase shifts of exactly zero and pi, for different wavelengths, generally unattainable by a single element device.

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