Zwitterion-doped liquid crystal speckle reducers for immersive displays and vectorial imaging

Y Jin, NP Spiller, C He, G Faulkner, MJ Booth… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Lasers possess many attractive features (eg, high brightness, narrow linewidth, well-defined
polarization) that make them the ideal illumination source for many different scientific and …

Speckle noise reduction on a laser projection display via a broadband green light source

NE Yu, JW Choi, H Kang, DK Ko, SH Fu, JW Liou… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
A broadband green light source was demonstrated using a tandem-poled lithium niobate
(TPLN) crystal. The measured wavelength and temperature bandwidth were 6.5 nm and …

A low speckle laser pico-projector using dynamic light scattering liquid crystal devices

YH Chen, JW Pan, SC Jeng - Displays, 2022 - Elsevier
A dynamic light scattering liquid crystal (DLS-LC) device is applied to reduce speckle from a
laser pico-projector. The DLS-LC device produces time-varying scattering patterns, which …

Enhancing laser speckle reduction by decreasing the pitch of a chiral nematic liquid crystal diffuser

DJ Hansford, Y Jin, SJ Elston, SM Morris - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The artefact known as speckle can plague numerous imaging applications where the narrow
linewidth of laser light is required, which includes laser projection and medical imaging …

Intracavity frequency-doubled degenerate laser

SF Liew, S Knitter, S Weiler, JF Monjardin-Lopez… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We develop a green light source with low spatial coherence via intracavity frequency
doubling of a solid-state degenerate laser. The second-harmonic emission supports many …

[HTML][HTML] Speckle contrast reduction of laser light using a chiral nematic liquid crystal diffuser

DJ Hansford, JAJ Fells, SJ Elston, SM Morris - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
High coherence in laser light causes spatially distributed interference called speckle. In
applications such as holographic projection, this undesirable side effect degrades image …

Suppression of laser speckle contrast using negative dielectric anisotropy nematic liquid crystal doped with an ionic medium

R Kushawaha, A Sinha - Liquid Crystals, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A liquid crystal (LC) with negative dielectric anisotropy called N-(4-
Methoxybenzylidene)-4-Butylaniline (MBBA) doped with the ionic agent …

Laser speckle reduction using polymer-stabilized liquid crystals doped with Ag nanowires

X Jiang, W Zhou, W Wang, Z Le, W Dong - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Miniaturized and pure static devices are expected to be used in laser-imaging systems for
speckle reduction. In this study, a pure static device based on polymer-stabilized liquid …

A hybrid temporal and spatial speckle-suppression method for laser displays

QL Deng, BS Lin, PJ Wu, KY Chiu, PL Fan… - Optics Express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We propose a system that reduces laser display speckles by vibrating the light pipe. A small
displacement of the light pipe appears to allow the total reflection of the laser, thereby …

Investigation of laser speckle noise suppression by using polymer-stabilized liquid crystals within twisted nematic cell

JH Lin, SC Chang, YH Li, CY Chien… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a robust method to suppress laser speckle using a polymer-stabilized liquid
crystal (PSLC) device with high initial transmittance. With applied voltage, a large …