Programmable Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with Millions of Degrees of Freedom

This thesis proposes a novel approach to photonics, wherein waveguides are formed entirely within a homogeneous liquid crystal layer using Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon (LCoS) technology. Utilizing the electro-optical properties of LCs, we demonstrate the theoretical feasibility of inducing refractive i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Archer
Other Authors: Englund, Dirk
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156622