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Project

Simulation and measurement of liquid crystal devices with micrometer-scale variations for diffractive optics applications
Code
3F015108
Duration
01 October 2008 → 18 April 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
  • Engineering and technology
    • Modelling
    • Multimedia processing
    • Materials science and engineering
Keywords
liquid crystal displays diffractive optics liquid crystals
 
Project description
 

This work is an experimental and theoretical study of a light modulator based on liquid crystals, where the pixel size approaches the light wavelength. Therefore, the existing three-dimensional for molecule orientation is extended and the two-dimensional Wide Angle Beam Propagation simulation method is extended to three dimensions in order to describe the complex optical propagation through the system.