Fabrication of high efficiency, high quality, large area diffractive waveplates and arrays

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PATENT NO 9983479
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14048557

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An apparatus and method for fabricating high quality one- or two-dimensional diffractive waveplates and arrays that exhibit high diffraction efficiency and capable of inexpensive large volume production. A generally non-holographic and aperiodic polarization converter for converting the polarization of a coherent input light beam of a visible wavelength into a pattern of continuous spatial modulation at the output of the polarization converter. A photoresponsive material characterized by an anisotropy axis according to polarization of the light beam is exposed to a polarization modulation pattern and coated subsequently with an anisotropic material overlayer with ability of producing an optical axis orientation according to and under the influence of the anisotropy axis of the photoresponsive material layer. The diffractive waveplates are obtained when exposure time of photoresponsive material layer exceeds an order of magnitude the time period that is known to produce spatially homogeneous orientation of the anisotropic overlayer.

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BEAM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS CO1300 LEE ROAD ORLANDO FL 32810

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Kimball, Brian R Shrewsbury, US 16 540
Nersisyan, Sarik R Maitland, US 11 370
Steeves, Diane M Franklin, US 16 545
Tabirian, Nelson V Winter Park, US 55 1174

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