Fast Acting Optical Deflection

Abstract

The spectral transmittance has been studied with sinusoidal phase transmission gratings with 600 lines per mm and of varying groove depths from 637nm to 776nm in order to obtain minimum optical transmission in the wavelength range of 500nm to 1000nm. All the gratings were formed on photo-resist materials on glass substrates using a holographic technique. A high degree of attenuation of the zero order beam over a small wavelength range is attainable with a single sinusoidal transmission grating of an appropriate groove depth, min at which the transmittance is minimum, being proportional to the magnitude of the groove depth. A superposition of two crossed gratings of two dissimilar groove depths either on two different glass substrate or on a single substrate can provide a very low optical transmittance in the band 400-1000nm although the visibility through such a system is poor.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 13, 1991
Accession Number
ADA237904

Entities

People

  • Dilip K. Das-Gupta

Organizations

  • Bangor University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Attenuation
  • Coherent Radiation
  • Diffraction
  • Distortion
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Gratings (Spectra)
  • Light Sources
  • Materials
  • Power Spectra
  • Radiation
  • Refractive Index
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Security
  • Spectra
  • Substrates
  • Transmittance

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.