High-efficiency 1.5 μm thick optical axis grating and its use for laser beam combining
Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 169-171 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.000169
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Abstract
We demonstrate an optical axis grating (OAG) recorded in a nematic liquid crystal that yields a higher than 80% diffraction efficiency and over 800:1 switching contrast between diffraction orders for a laser beam of a red wavelength in a material layer only
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OCIS Codes
(050.1950) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction gratings
(160.3710) Materials : Liquid crystals
(230.3720) Optical devices : Liquid-crystal devices
ToC Category:
Optical Devices
History
Original Manuscript: September 11, 2006
Revised Manuscript: October 11, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: October 23, 2006
Published: December 23, 2006
Citation
Svetlana Serak, Nelson Tabiryan, and Boris Zeldovich, "High-efficiency 1.5 μm thick optical axis grating and its use for laser beam combining," Opt. Lett. 32, 169-171 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-32-2-169
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