AOTF (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter) spectral imaging devices is widely utilized in remote sensing applications due to its advantages of no moving parts, rapid response, and robust reliability. TeO2 (Tellurium dioxide)-based AOTF, currently represent as the most commonly employed acousto-optic crystals owing to TeO2 excellent acousto-optic figures of merit. The effect of heat in acousto-optic devices is a persistent problem because acousto-optic interactions necessitate maintaining a specific acoustic power within the crystal. Various efforts have been applied to analyze and obtain the temperature field of acousto-optic devices. Various efforts have been applied to measurement of the temperature distribution of AOTF devices. However, there is still lack the research of accurate thermal modeling for AOTF devices. This paper presents a thermodynamic model based on finite element-based approach to simulated the thermal characteristics of AOTF device. Approach considerations include the impact of device impedance matching on actual electrical power consumption, as well as factors like acoustic anisotropy and the heating effect of the acoustic absorber. Simulation model conducted on the entire device, encompassing the shell. Experimental validation was carried out by measuring the surface temperature of AO crystals under various thermodynamic conditions.
There are many implementations of naked-eye 3D display technology. Diffraction-based multiview 3D display is one of the most promising research directions. Several viewpoints are built where human can get different image in their eyes to get stereoscopic perception. The core element in this solution is grating, which diffracts the light to a specific direction, usually the +1 or -1 level. Compared to binary grating, a novel geometric phase element, liquid crystal polarization grating (LCPG) has many advantages in acting as the core element. First, LCPG shows periodically cycloidal texture and can diffract with nearly 100% efficiency which minimize the high order and concentrate the energy on ±1 order. Second, its polarization-sensitive character can be used for making a polarization-dependent display. What’s more, the grating is spin coated on the substrate and appears a super thin film for less than 10μm. Photo alignment technology is used for fabricating LCPGs. We proposed an interference-free and single exposure method using birefringent prism and wave plate. The fabricated LCPGs appear >99% efficiency and has potential to expand the effective waveband. This method is effective, robust and low-cost, which has potential for commercial applications.
Polarization sensor is a device to perceive the polarization information of skylight in polarization navigation. And imaging polarization sensor is better than the multi-channel point sensor for the advantages of wide field, large data redundancy and strong robustness. But the polarization patterns of skylight in different spectrums are different, which would represent different symmetry and structural similarity to the Rayleigh model. Meanwhile, the detectors inside have different responses in different spectrums. Therefore, the spectrum selection in the process of designing an imaging polarization sensor is an important issue. In this paper, we quantitatively evaluate the spectrum for imaging polarization sensor under the different sky conditions by two indexes: structural similarity (SSIM) index and symmetry error index. The result shows that wavelength shorter than 514nm has both higher structural similarity and symmetry in the visible spectrum. In other words, the imaging polarization sensor works better in the short-band spectrum.
Point spread function (PSF) of projector plays an important role in coaxial projection-imaging profilometry and binary defocusing fringe projection profilometry. In the proposed method, the SPI (Single Pixel Imaging)-based PSF measurement method has been used to obtain the PSF of the projector point by point. We use the camera to capture the SPI patterns projected by the projector on a white plane. By considering each pixel of the camera as a single-pixel detector, we can apply SPI technology to the camera pixels and acquire the light transport coefficients between the object points on the white plane and image points of projector, which is the spatially varying blur. Owing to the characteristic of SPI, the proposed method could obtain the spatially varying blur of every pixel directly. The experiment also verified that the proposed method could provide a more accurate blur kernel than the traditional Gaussian blur kernel to fit the blur model of the camera lens.
Diffractive optical elements (DOEs), with attractive features such as excellent performance and compact configuration, are now becoming increasingly important to a wide range of optical system applications. In this paper, we have used the patterned photoalignment method to produce switchable gratings. It is found that these gratings combine good optical quality with very fast dynamical response at very low driving voltage. A sub-millisecond steering with active FLC as a polarization selector and passive polarization grating (PG) as a diffractive element. A systematic analysis is conducted from the device fabrication to the element working mechanism with their potential problems and corresponding solutions included. The polymerizable liquid crystal PG shows compact size, light weight, robustness, and low cost. Switching time of 82μs is realized by binary switching between two circular polarizations before incident on PG utilizing FLC driven by two electrical polarities. Overall efficiency of 95.7% is achieved with steering angle of 17.66° by 1064nm laser.
We propose here a design of Lyot-Solc composite structure for liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF) using nematic liquid crystal, which is with high efficiency, narrow bandwidth and electrical tunability. LCTF with high efficiency has many important applications in the fields of optical communication, spectral imaging, and displays. However, most LCTFs adopt cascaded Lyot-type or Solc-type structure, in which multiple pieces of polarizing optical elements exist, causing intensive loss of light intensity. The Lyot-type filter has narrower full width at half maximum (FWHM), but the transmittance is lower. The Solc-type filter has high transmittance and larger free spectral range (FSR) but broader FWHM. We propose a new structure of LCTF composed of Solc-type and Lyot-type structure. The composite 3-levelSolc and 2-level-Lyot LCTF transmission spectrum is a combination of the advantages of the two structures. Through the reasonable structural design, the spectral transmittance is improved, and the secondary transmission peak in the visible spectrum is effectively minimized. At the same time, the output central wavelength can be electrically tunable in the range from 400nm to 650nm by loading different amplitude of driving signals. When the driving signals with amplitude of 1.61V, 1.45V and 1.25V are respectively loaded on the liquid crystal cells of the LCTF, the central wavelengths of the output spectrum are respectively 433nm, 510nm and 595nm, corresponding to the FWHM of 13nm, 16nm and 22nm.
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