Wide-aperture no-moving-parts optical beam profiler using liquid-crystal displays

    Authors

    M. Gentili;N. A. Riza

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Optics

    Keywords

    LASER-BEAM; Optics

    Abstract

    To the best of our knowledge, we demonstrate the first no-moving-parts largest aperture proffler design that is also cost effective. Specifically exploited is the large-scale production of thin-film transistor liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) to produce a high intrinsic reliability low-cost proffler. Today, the maximum beam diameter under test can reach 70 cm using 117 cm. diagonal LCDs. Experiments conducted with the laboratory LCD profiler include 1D and 2D knife-edge profiling, 2D pinhole profiling, and beam divergence measurements.

    Journal Title

    Applied Optics

    Volume

    46

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    506

    Last Page

    512

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000243782500009

    ISSN

    1559-128X

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