Nonmechanical programmable image rotator with Glan-Thompson prism

Jingyi Xiong; Friso Schlottau; Youzhi Li; Kelvin Wagner

doi:10.1117/12.557988

22 October 2004 Nonmechanical programmable image rotator with Glan-Thompson prism

Jingyi Xiong, Friso Schlottau, Youzhi Li, Kelvin Wagner

Proceedings Volume 5557, Optical Information Systems II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.557988
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We present a non-mechanical, dynamically programmable, all-optical image rotator, which can rotate an input image to any angle or a grid given by 360°/2ⁿ, where n is the number of stages. The image rotator uses cascaded stages in which each stage rotates the image by an angle given by half the previous stage. Each stage uses an Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal (FLC) polarization switch to select between a straight through path and a deflected path with an odd number of bounces, that when rotated to an angle, operates as an image rotating prism. An FLC is used for each stage to choose the polarization and therefore whether to rotate the image or not. By switching the FLC director orientation by 45 for each stage, images can be rotated to an arbitrary angle at a speed of several KHz.

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Jingyi Xiong, Friso Schlottau, Youzhi Li, and Kelvin Wagner "Nonmechanical programmable image rotator with Glan-Thompson prism", Proc. SPIE 5557, Optical Information Systems II, (22 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.557988

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