Asymmetric dynamic phase holographic grating in nematic liquid crystal

A new scheme for recording a dynamic phase grating with an asymmetric profile in C60-doped homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal（NLC） was presented.An oblique incidence beam was used to record the thin asymmetric dynamic phase holographic grating.The diffraction efficiency we achieved is more than 40%,exceeding the theoretical limit for symmetric profile gratings.Both facts can be explained by assuming that a grating with an asymmetric saw-tooth profile is formed in the NLC.Finally,physical mechanism and mathematical model for characterizing the asymmetric phase holographic grating were presented,based on the photo-refractive-like（PR-like） effect.

The Design of Bending Long Period of Photonic Crystal Fiber Grating Sensors

The bending photonic crystal fiber grating sensor is an important role in underwater monitoring and fire alarm systems. It is studied that the resonant wavelength expression of bending long period photonic crystal fiber gratings is deduced, it is designed that a bending long period photonic crystal fiber grating sensor system, it is calculated in theory that between the bending long period photonic crystal fiber gratings sensor resonance wavelength and the grating period and the bending strain. The result is shown by calculating and analysing in theory, the grating curvature is increased by the increase of the bending strain of the grating, and the resonance wavelength of the grating sensor is drifted, the drift amount is increased, one in this grating, the drifted amount of the resonant wavelength is 0.014 nm.

Arbitrary and reconfigurable optical vortex generation:a high-efficiency technique using director-varying liquid crystal fork gratings

A high-efficiency technique for optical vortex(OV) generation is proposed and demonstrated. The technique is based on liquid crystal fork gratings with space-variant azimuthal orientations, which are locally controlled via polarization-sensitive alignment layers. Thanks to the optical rewritability of the alignment agent and the dynamic image generation of the digital micro-mirror device, fork gratings can be instantly and arbitrarily reconfigured.Corresponding optical vortices carrying arbitrary azimuthal and radial indices are demonstrated with a conversion efficiency of 98.5%, exhibiting features of polarization control and electrical switching. The technique may pave a bright road toward OV generation, manipulation, and detection.

Characterization of external refractive index sensitivity of a photonic crystal fiber long-period grating

Long-period gratings （LPGs） are fabricated in a photonic crystal fiber （PCF） using the symmetric point- by-point CO2 laser irradiation method to explore the sensitivity characterization of PCF-LPG. Numerical sim- ulation is used to guide the investigation. It is found that the refractive index （RI） sensitivity of PCF-LPG depends on the coupled cladding modes as well as the coupled resonance wavelength （RW） of the LPG. Experimental studies show that the longer the RW, the higher the RI sensitivity for the same cladding mode. At similar RWs, the lower the cladding mode, the higher the RI sensitivity of PCF-LPG.

A novel lateral cavity surface emitting laser with top sub-wavelength grating

We report a novel lateral cavity surface emitting laser based on sub-wavelength high-index-contrast grating with in-plane resonance and surface-normal emission. The device is fabricated on a simple commercial wafer without the distributed Bragg reflector and it needs no wafer bonding. It exhibits a side mode suppression ratio of 23.0 d B and a high output power of 5.32 m W at 1552.44 nm. The specific single mode lasing agrees well with the band edge mode calculation of the grating. In 3D simulation, we observe obvious light output from the grating.

Large viewing angle holographic 3D display system based on maximum diffraction modulation

An ideal holographic 3D display should have the characteristics of large viewing angle,full color,and low speckle noise.However,the viewing angle of the holographic 3D display is usually limited by existing strategies,which vastly hinders its extensive application.In this paper,a large viewing angle holographic 3D display system based on maximum diffraction modulation is proposed.The core of the proposed system comprises the spatial light modulators(SLMs)and liquid crystal grating.We also present a new feasible scheme for the realization of large viewing angle holographic 3D display.This is achieved by considering the maximum diffraction angle of SLM as the limited diffraction modulation range of each image point.By doing so,we could not only give access to the maximum hologram size of the object,but also tune the reconstructed image of secondary diffraction by using a self-engineered liquid crystal grating.More importantly,the proposed maximum diffraction modulation scheme enables the viewing angle of the proposed system to be enlarged to 73.4°.The proposed system has huge application potential in the fields such as education,culture,and entertainment.