A novel method is described in detail for steering light in many directions without moving mechanical parts. The method involves a combination of liquid crystal cells and polarizing beam splitters. The polarization at each beam splitter is controlled by applying a signal to its corresponding liquid crystal cell.
A study of light steering techniques is described for efficient beam placement, in a line and plane.
These techniques permit accurate, non-mechanical, beam steering limited by the response time of the liquid crystal cells. A theoretical limit to the number of discrete directions is described and closely approached for a one dimensional system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-05202013-101814 |
| Date | 19 June 2013 |
| Creators | Hebert, Daniel James |
| Contributors | Taylor, Carol, Dowling, Johnathan, Ajmera, Pratul, Daniels-Race, Theda, Feldman, Martin, Srivastava, Ashok |
| Publisher | LSU |
| Source Sets | Louisiana State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-05202013-101814/ |
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