Banglian Xu

Colored image produced with guided-mode resonance filter array

A method to reproduce colored images with a guided-mode resonance filter (GMRF) array is presented in this Letter. Because of their excellent characteristics, monochromatic light of the three primary colors with high purity can be achieved by using GMRF structures. Moreover, the primary colors are obtained without changing other GMRF parameters except the period, which could be realized easily with laser direct writing technology. The result shows that a colored image with high resolution and verisimilitude can be reproduced.

Real-Time Angular Sensitivity Compensation of Guided-Mode Resonance Filter

Guided-mode resonant filters (GMRFs) are promising narrowband filters with high peak efficiency, but their practical applications have been restricted by their natural high angular sensitivity. We investigated the influence of incident angle and azimuthal angle on the spectral response of GMRF, and found that the resonant peaks are mainly influenced by the incident angle. A polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer was introduced to compensate the shift of resonant wavelength through applying proper voltage in real time, and numerical results show that a large angular compensation range of about ±4.2° can be obtained while maintaining high performance of the spectral response.

High-Transmittance Subwavelength Metal Grating with Relief Structure Composed of Multiple Steps

A new kind of subwavelength metal grating with relief structure is designed and analyzed, in which the shape of the grating lines is no longer a single rectangle, but a relief structure with multiple steps. GsolverV52 was used to determine the optimal values of the grating period, groove depth, and the number of steps. The optical performance of the novel structure is evaluated and compared in terms of the transmission efficiency and extinction ratio over the visible and near-infrared wavelength spectrum. It is shown that, in the near-infrared band, the maximum transmittance can be increased about 15% compared to the traditional metal grating under the same parameters. With the unique characteristics, the metal grating is expected to find applications in liquid crystal display fields, polarization imaging, optical communication, and so on.

Calculation of the diffraction efficiency on concave gratings based on Fresnel–Kirchhoff’s diffraction formula

Fraunhofer diffraction formula cannot be applied to calculate the diffraction wave energy distribution of concave gratings like plane gratings because their grooves are distributed on a concave spherical surface. In this paper, a method based on the Kirchhoff diffraction theory is proposed to calculate the diffraction efficiency on concave gratings by considering the curvature of the whole concave spherical surface. According to this approach, each groove surface is divided into several limited small planes, on which the Kirchhoff diffraction field distribution is calculated, and then the diffraction field of whole concave grating can be obtained by superimposition. Formulas to calculate the diffraction efficiency of Rowland-type and flat-field concave gratings are deduced from practical applications. Experimental results showed strong agreement with theoretical computations. With the proposed method, light energy can be optimized to the expected diffraction wave range while implementing aberration-corrected design of concave gratings, particularly for the concave blazed gratings.

Design and characteristics of polarization-insensitive resonant gratings for color filtering

A method of designing polarization-insensitive color filters with guided-mode resonance grating is presented. The influence of incident conditions on exciting waveguide mode is investigated, and we find that polarization insensitivity may occur at the full conical incidence. Using rigorous coupled-wave analysis, we mainly analyze the effects of waveguide thickness and fill factor on the diffracted efficiency of the grating filter. The final structural parameters of the devices for three primary colors are collected after optimization, and the calculated results show that the spectral reflectance of each color filter is basically identical for different polarization states of incident light. Moreover, field analysis by the finite-difference time-domain technique indicates that two symmetric modes are excited between the waveguide layer and substrate under full conical incidence, which is coincident with the previous theoretical study. The reported work will eliminate the restriction of polarization-dependence of color filters and greatly expand their application range.

The Spectrum of Quantum Dots Film for UV CCD

A new kind of UV-responsive film with quantum dots (QDs) fabricated by a spin-coating method is proposed in this paper. In a previous study, the monolayer QDs film is deposited onto fused silica slides by the spin-coating way, which has some luminous problem. The introduction of composite QDs coating which adds PEDOT:PSS and poly-TPD films to the monolayer QDs film is found to have excellent performance. The reason can be that PEDOT:PSS and poly-TPD weaken the scattering and enhance the emitting of quantum dot fluorescence. The intensity of photoluminescence (PL) for composite QDs coating is dozens of times stronger than that for monolayer QDs film. Experiment results show that this composite coating has excellent fluorescent properties and emits a blue purple glow together a wide excitation spectrum field from 190 nm to 300 nm. The spectrum of the composite coating matches accurately with the detected zone of CCD, which achieves an outstanding UV-responsive coating for conventional silicon-based image sensors.