Efficient and monolithic polarization conversion system based on a polarization grating |
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Authors: | Jihwan Kim Ravi K Komanduri Kristopher F Lawler D Jason Kekas Michael J Escuti |
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Affiliation: | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA. |
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Abstract: | We introduce a new polarization conversion system (PCS) based on a liquid-crystal polarization grating (PG) and louvered wave plate. A simple arrangement of these elements laminated between two microlens arrays results in a compact and monolithic element, with the ability to nearly completely convert unpolarized input into linearly polarized output across most of the visible bandwidth. In our first prototypes, this PG-PCS approach manifests nearly 90% conversion efficiency of unpolarized to polarized for ±11° input light divergence, leading to an energy efficient picoprojector that presents high efficacy (12 lm/W) with good color uniformity. |
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