Neural network controller for Tunable Liquid Crystal Photonic Device work as Laser Beam Steering Device

Neural network controller for Tunable Liquid Crystal Photonic Device work as Laser Beam Steering Device

In this paper, artificial neural network controller (NNC) was designed and used to adjust and control the work of the laser beam steering device consist of liquid crystals cell and other optical components. The target of the neurocontroller is to guarantee smooth deliver and exactly control the laser beam to a required location via control the liquid crystals cell and the optical components. Ba...

Electrically tunable Yb-doped fiber laser based on a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber device.

We demonstrate electrical tunability of a fiber laser using a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber. Tuning of the laser is achieved by combining the wavelength filtering effect of a tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber device with an ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber. We fabricate an all-spliced laser cavity based on the liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber mounted on a silicon ...

Nematic Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators for Laser Beam Steering

Adaptive Suppression of Optical Jitter with a New Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Device

This paper presents a new approach to closed-loop control of optical jitter with a new liquid crystal beam steering device. In contrast to conventional fast steering mirrors, where the laser beam is reflected of the controlled mirror surface, the transmissive liquid crystal beam steering device optically redirects the laser beam. The new device has no moving parts and requires low operating pow...

Advances in liquid crystal beam steering

A space platform for optical communications could benefit from nonmechanical beam steering in which no inertia is used to redirect the laser communications link. This benefit is to come in the form of compact, low-power, lightweight optical phased arrays that provide greater flexibility in their steering capability. Non-mechanical beam steering eliminates the need for massive optomechanical com...