Beam scanning and color display with an elastomeric grating actuated by a shape memory alloy

Raphael A. Guerrero; Michelle Wynne C. Sze; Jose Ramon A. Batiller

doi:10.1117/12.863722

12 August 2010 Beam scanning and color display with an elastomeric grating actuated by a shape memory alloy

Raphael A. Guerrero, Michelle Wynne C. Sze, Jose Ramon A. Batiller

Proceedings Volume 7788, Polymer Optics Design, Fabrication, and Materials; 77880B (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.863722
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A tunable diffraction grating is fabricated by embedding a nitinol wire within an elastomeric grating replica. Curvature of the grating is varied through heating the wire with an electric current. Actuation redirects the grating normal, resulting in a scanning motion of the diffracted beam. With 2.0 A of applied current, the 1^st-order beam sweeps from diffraction angle φ = 45.4° to φ = 29.6° (Δφ = 15.8°) in approximately 40 seconds. Use of the deformable grating as a selective color display element is discussed.

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Raphael A. Guerrero, Michelle Wynne C. Sze, and Jose Ramon A. Batiller "Beam scanning and color display with an elastomeric grating actuated by a shape memory alloy", Proc. SPIE 7788, Polymer Optics Design, Fabrication, and Materials, 77880B (12 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.863722

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