{"title":"Large Aperture Liquid Prism With Extended Deflection Range","authors":"Xintong Wang;Bingkun Xie;Guohan Gao;Lei Li","doi":"10.1109/LPT.2025.3592280","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Traditional liquid prisms face challenges in achieving large aperture and wide deflection angle. In this letter, a large aperture liquid prism with mechanical drive is proposed. Four baffle plates are used in the prism cavity to achieve rigid constraints on the movement of the deflector at the L-L interface. The proposed device achieves the deflection of one-dimensional FOV with a large aperture of 16 mm and a deflection angle of 7.4°(±3.7°). The proposed device can also realize two- dimensional scanning by stacking two identical prisms together. This work addresses key limitations of existing liquid prisms, providing new solutions for applications in optical scanning, imaging, and adaptive systems.","PeriodicalId":13065,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","volume":"37 21","pages":"1229-1232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Photonics Technology Letters","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11095778/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Traditional liquid prisms face challenges in achieving large aperture and wide deflection angle. In this letter, a large aperture liquid prism with mechanical drive is proposed. Four baffle plates are used in the prism cavity to achieve rigid constraints on the movement of the deflector at the L-L interface. The proposed device achieves the deflection of one-dimensional FOV with a large aperture of 16 mm and a deflection angle of 7.4°(±3.7°). The proposed device can also realize two- dimensional scanning by stacking two identical prisms together. This work addresses key limitations of existing liquid prisms, providing new solutions for applications in optical scanning, imaging, and adaptive systems.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters addresses all aspects of the IEEE Photonics Society Constitutional Field of Interest with emphasis on photonic/lightwave components and applications, laser physics and systems and laser/electro-optics technology. Examples of subject areas for the above areas of concentration are integrated optic and optoelectronic devices, high-power laser arrays (e.g. diode, CO2), free electron lasers, solid, state lasers, laser materials'' interactions and femtosecond laser techniques. The letters journal publishes engineering, applied physics and physics oriented papers. Emphasis is on rapid publication of timely manuscripts. A goal is to provide a focal point of quality engineering-oriented papers in the electro-optics field not found in other rapid-publication journals.