CN211478821U - Lighting system applied to DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses an illuminating system applied to a DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device, which comprises a pulse light source; the dynamic mask generating assembly comprises a numerical control micro-mirror DMD and an electric adjustable polaroid and is used for dynamically adjusting and controlling the polarization state of incident light from the illuminating system; the pulse repetition light source frequency of the pulse light source is matched with the image refreshing rate of the digital control micro-mirror DMD. The utility model discloses utilize that pulse laser energy is big, the pulse width is short, repetition frequency is high characteristics, realize single frame polarization pattern record based on single or a plurality of pulses, it is big to have the area, efficient, good reliability's advantage.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a liquid crystal display field especially relates to a wide breadth random distribution's photoalignment device and method based on digital micro mirror.
Background
Liquid crystals have wide applications in the fields of information display, optics, photonics devices, and the like; the liquid crystal can further realize the modulation of amplitude, phase and polarization of light according to the designed orientation arrangement, and plays an important role in the applications, so the orientation arrangement control mode of the liquid crystal becomes a research hotspot of academic and industrial production, and the prior art disclosed at present mainly comprises a rubbing orientation technology and a photo-orientation technology:
the rubbing alignment is to rub an alignment film of a liquid crystal display with materials such as nylon fibers or cotton linters in a certain direction to change the surface condition of the film and generate uniform anchoring effect on liquid crystal molecules, so that the liquid crystal molecules are uniformly arranged in a certain area between two glass plates of the liquid crystal display at a certain pretilt angle. However, there are the following problems: static electricity is easily generated in the friction process, which can cause the breakdown of the thin film transistor, and because fluff dust is generated in the friction process, cleaning and drying processes must be added after friction, so that the production efficiency is reduced.
Photoalignment is a newly developed non-contact liquid crystal aligning method, which utilizes photosensitive materials to perform oriented photocrosslinking, isomerization or photocleavage reaction under ultraviolet or blue light polarized light irradiation to obtain the required arrangement, and the current photoalignment technologies are divided into four types: mask overlay polarization patterning techniques, periodic liquid crystal alignment techniques obtained by holographic interference methods, dynamic mask photo-alignment techniques based on DMDs, and also polarization alignment techniques based on spatial modulators.
The mask overlay polarization pattern technology has the following problems: the alignment difficulty is too high, and the efficiency is low; the precision is low; the large breadth is difficult to manufacture; the mask is in contact with the photoresist layer on the wafer causing damage.
The periodic liquid crystal orientation technology obtained by the holographic interference method can only realize specific periodic polarization patterns and cannot realize the writing of any polarization patterns.
The polarization orientation technology based on the liquid crystal spatial modulator is a programmable control device capable of modulating the phase and amplitude of incident light, pattern recording of different orientation arrangements of liquid crystals in different selected areas can be realized by single projection orientation, but if an imaging system is an amplification system, the sample size is large, the pixel unit size is also large, and a high-precision polarization pattern cannot be output.
The dynamic mask photo-alignment technology based on the DMD can quickly generate a required mask plate pattern by refreshing an intensity distribution diagram on the DMD, does not need to physically produce a new mask plate, is easier to realize alignment distribution of various shapes, but still uses a method of mechanically rotating a linear polarization film to control the polarization direction of light, so that multiple exposures are still needed to complete photo-alignment of complex patterns.
Therefore, a new device and method for an illumination system to satisfy both high precision and large output polarization pattern in the liquid crystal display field is needed.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention discloses an illumination system applied to a DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device, the illumination system comprising a pulsed light source;
the illumination system is connected with the dynamic mask generation assembly, and the dynamic mask generation assembly comprises a numerical control micro-mirror DMD and an electric adjustable polaroid and is used for dynamically adjusting and controlling the polarization state of incident light from the illumination system;
the pulse repetition light source frequency of the pulse light source is matched with the image refreshing rate of the digital control micro-mirror DMD.
As the utility model discloses embodiment's further improvement, lighting system expands beam system and polarizer including ultraviolet or blue light source, collimation that connect gradually, the polarizer with the initial polarization direction of control light links to each other for the arbitrary polarization direction's of 0-179 degrees within range surface light source is generated to the collimation.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, after the single or multiple pulse light beams generated by the pulse light source are expanded, collimated, and split, the accumulated energy density is lower than the damage threshold of the phase modulator at the position of the phase modulator; after the subsequent imaging step, the accumulated energy density is higher than the threshold energy of the light polarization sensitive material on the surface of the sample.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the pulsed light source is generated by a pulsed laser or a continuous laser plus a mechanical or photoelectric light barrier, or by a pulsed LED or a continuous LED plus a controllable light barrier system.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the pulsed light emitted from the pulsed light source forms a collimated uniform light spot with a divergence angle smaller than 10mrad and a light intensity uniformity better than 80% after passing through the collimated beam expanding system and the polarizer.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the repetition frequency of the pulse light source is 1Hz to 10 kHz;
the pulse width of the pulse light source is in the range of picoseconds to seconds, and the energy of a single pulse is in the range of nano-focus to millifocus.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the wavelength of the pulse light source is between 340nm and 600nm, and the half width of the pulse light source is less than 5 nm.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, in a constant temperature and humidity environment, the central wavelength drift amplitude of the pulsed light source is less than 3 nm; the half-wave width of the light source is less than 5nm, and the energy of the pulse light source which is higher than eighty percent is concentrated in the half-width of the central wavelength;
the phase error of the central wavelength drift, the half width, the temperature and the wave plate error of the pulse light source to the polarization degree of the output pattern of the polarization pattern generation component is less than 1 percent.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the collimation beam expanding system is used for adjusting the line light source or the point light source to a parallel surface light source and outputting to the dynamic mask generating assembly.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, the DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device includes an illumination system, a dynamic mask generation assembly, an imaging detection assembly, a focus servo system, and a motion control component, which are sequentially arranged;
the imaging detection component is used for detecting the generated pattern imaging; the focal length servo system comprises a normally open light source insensitive to light polarization sensitive materials and a vertical direction correction assembly, and is used for correcting the defocusing phenomenon generated by movement;
the motion control component is used for adjusting the spatial position of the platform carrying the light polarization sensitive material so as to realize light field splicing.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. the utility model discloses utilize pulsed lighting system can real-time control the phase change in single exposure area when being applied to high-speed exposure patterning liquid crystal photo-orientation, accomplish the exposure of high accuracy high resolution;
2. the single-frame polarization pattern recording is realized based on single or multiple pulses by utilizing the characteristics of large pulse laser energy, short pulse width and high repetition frequency, and the single-frame polarization pattern recording device has the advantages of large area, high efficiency and good reliability;
3. the utility model discloses a light source adopts ultraviolet or blue light after the beam expanding collimation, adjusts the light field with the phase modulator, can produce different polarization phase place, and the recombination becomes imaging system and carries out the shrink, finally realizes the polarization modulation of arbitrary direction in the unit pixel, has effectively overcome "the problem that polarization orientation is single, the flexibility ratio is low, machining efficiency is low";
4. the utility model adopts the assistance of the focusing servo system to control the objective lens to move up and down, focus in real time and improve the resolution;
5. the utility model adopts the high-precision platform to accurately control the sample to do two-dimensional plane movement, thereby providing favorable conditions for realizing large-format writing;
6. the utility model adopts the light energy not concentrated, and eliminates the abutted seam between each light-operated orientation view field by controlling the relation between the size of a single view field and the single translation distance, thereby improving the resolution;
7. the utility model has the advantages of single exposure polarization pattern high accuracy is controllable wantonly, the large tracts of land is write, efficient, has important meaning to design and preparation jumbo size, high accuracy, multi-functional liquid crystal optical device.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a large-area patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device based on a digital micro-mirror according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an imaging detection assembly provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a focus servo system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of an incident collimated light path according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of gray scale and polarization angle according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a light orientation generation example according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the following description will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
The embodiment of the utility model provides a liquid crystal photoalignment device of big face patterning based on digital micro mirror, as shown in figure 1, including illumination system, dynamic mask generation subassembly, formation of image detection subassembly, focus servo system and the motion control part that sets gradually;
the illumination system comprises an ultraviolet or blue light source, a collimation and beam expansion system and a polarizer which are sequentially connected, wherein the polarizer is connected with the collimation and beam expansion system and used for controlling the initial polarization direction of light and generating a surface light source with any polarization direction within the range of 0-179 ℃;
the dynamic mask generating assembly comprises a numerical control micro-mirror DMD, an electrically adjustable polaroid and a computer control system and is used for dynamically adjusting and controlling the polarization state of incident light; wherein, the image signal of the computer control system is input to the signal input end of the digital control micro-mirror DMD;
an imaging detection component for detecting the generated pattern imaging;
the focal length servo system comprises a normally open light source insensitive to light polarization sensitive materials and a vertical direction correction assembly, and is used for correcting the defocusing phenomenon generated by movement;
and the motion control component is used for adjusting the spatial position of the platform carrying the light polarization sensitive material so as to realize light field splicing.
In an embodiment of the invention, the lighting system comprises a pulsed light source;
the dynamic mask generating assembly comprises a numerical control micro-mirror DMD and an electric adjustable polaroid and is used for dynamically adjusting and controlling the polarization state of incident light from the illuminating system;
the pulse repetition light source frequency of the pulse light source is matched with the image refreshing rate of the digital control micro-mirror DMD.
After single or multiple pulse light beams generated by the pulse light source are subjected to beam expanding, collimating and beam splitting, the accumulated energy density is lower than the damage threshold of a phase modulator at the position of the phase modulator; after the subsequent imaging step, the accumulated energy density is higher than the threshold energy of the light polarization sensitive material on the surface of the sample.
Optionally, the pulsed light source is generated by a pulsed laser or a continuous laser plus a mechanical or optoelectronic barrier, or by a pulsed LED or a continuous LED plus a controllable barrier system.
Specifically, the pulse light emitted by the pulse light source passes through the collimation beam-expanding system and the polarizer to form a collimation uniform light spot with a divergence angle less than 10mrad and light intensity uniformity better than 80%.
Wherein the repetition frequency of the pulse light source is 1Hz to 10 kHz;
the pulse width of the pulse light source is in picosecond to second level, and the energy of a single pulse is in nano-focus to millifocus level.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the wavelength of the pulse light source is between 340nm and 600nm, and the half width of the pulse light source is less than 5 nm.
Specifically, in a constant temperature and humidity environment, the central wavelength drift amplitude of the pulse light source is less than 3 nm; the half-wave width of the light source is less than 5nm, and the energy of the pulse light source which is higher than eighty percent is concentrated in the half-width of the central wavelength;
the central wavelength drift, half width, temperature and wave plate error of the pulse light source are less than 1% of the phase error of the polarization degree of the output pattern of the polarization pattern generation component.
The collimation and beam expansion system is used for adjusting the linear light source or the point light source into a parallel surface light source and outputting the parallel surface light source to the dynamic mask generating assembly.
In some embodiments, the imaging detection assembly further comprises a miniature imaging component for miniature polarization patterns output by the polarization pattern generation component and writing into the light polarization sensitive material;
the miniature imaging component comprises an imaging objective lens group, the main shaft direction of the optical path of the imaging objective lens group is vertical to the platform, and the motor drives the imaging objective lens group to vertically move up and down to form a focusing surface on the platform;
the imaging objective lens group comprises a tubular lens and a microscope objective lens; the digital micromirror DMD is arranged in front of the tubular lens.
Specifically, the miniature imaging component is connected with an electrically adjustable polarizing film and a beam splitter prism, and the electrically adjustable polarizing film and the beam splitter prism are arranged on a horizontal central axis of the digital controlled micromirror DMD; the beam splitting prism is used for transmitting the light with polarization information to the imaging detection assembly.
The device further comprises a platform for carrying the light polarization sensitive material; the platform is arranged below the imaging objective lens group and is provided with a two-dimensional motion track which is used for bearing the light polarization sensitive material and driving the light polarization sensitive material to move on a two-dimensional plane under the drive of the motion control component, so that the surface of the light polarization sensitive material is always kept on the focus plane of the imaging objective lens group;
the motion control component is connected with the miniature imaging component and is used for splicing the miniature polarization pattern light field.
As shown in fig. 2, the imaging detection assembly includes a first light splitter, a tube lens, an imaging objective lens group, a polarizer, a first lens, and a first imaging CCD, which are connected in sequence;
specifically, the front focal plane of the imaging objective lens group is located near the back focal plane of the barrel mirror; the imaging surface of the first imaging CCD is positioned on the front focal surface of the first lens; the back focal plane of the first lens is positioned on the front focal plane of the tube mirror.
As shown in fig. 3, the focal length servo system includes a detection light source, a second lens, a second dichroic plate, an imaging objective lens group, a second imaging CCD, and a motor, which are connected in sequence;
the detection light source is positioned on the front focal plane of the second lens; the second light splitting sheet is positioned on the back focal plane of the second lens; the imaging surface of the second imaging CCD is positioned on the front focal plane of the second lens; a motor-driven imaging objective lens group;
the first imaging CCD receives the reflected image projected to the light polarization sensitive material surface, and the first imaging CCD forms a conjugate image with the generated polarization pattern.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the light source is a pulsed light source or a continuous light source with a controllable light barrier system; the pulse width of the pulse laser generated by the light source is in picosecond to second level, and the wavelength of the pulse laser is 340nm to 600 nm.
On the other hand, the embodiment of the utility model discloses a big breadth random distribution's light orientation method based on digital micro mirror, includes following steps:
s1, adjusting light emitted by the light source into a collimated light beam through the collimation and beam expansion system;
s2, uniformly irradiating the collimated light beam to the surface of the DMD panel of the numerical control micro-mirror array at a preset angle;
s3, the computer outputs a graphic signal to control each micromirror of the DMD to present different reflection states to realize a mask, and the DMD panel refreshes an exposure graphic;
and S4, after the light beam forming the exposure pattern is micro-scaled by a micro objective lens, projecting the light beam to a liquid crystal substrate coated with a photo-alignment material on the surface through a polaroid, controlling the light intensity and time to complete exposure, and reorienting the liquid crystal in the exposure pattern area.
Wherein, step S4 specifically includes:
s401, refreshing the graph according to the DMD, and rotating the polaroid to a corresponding polarization angle to enable the light passing through the polaroid to be polarized light with a preset fixed polarization angle;
s402, the polarized light on the horizontal central axis is reflected by a beam splitter prism to form vertically downward polarized light, and the vertically downward polarized light sequentially passes through a tubular lens and a miniature objective lens to irradiate the surface of the light polarization sensitive material, and the beam splitter prism transmits the light with polarization information to an imaging detection assembly.
Specifically, in step S4, the miniature imaging component forms a fixed miniature magnification ratio by the focal length ratio of the tube lens and the miniature objective lens, and miniature the polarization pattern, thereby outputting the polarization pattern light field.
Further, step S402 specifically includes:
after an image reflected from the surface of the light polarization sensitive material sequentially passes through the microscope objective, the tubular lens, the specified waveband reflection flat plate and the first light splitter, the image enters the first imaging CCD through the first lens, and a generated polarization pattern and the first imaging CCD are positioned on the front focal plane of the tubular lens and form a conjugate relation; adjusting the definition of an image in the first imaging CCD by controlling the up-and-down movement of a lens of the microscope objective, judging whether the focal plane of the microscope objective is on the light polarization sensitive material surface, calibrating the laser spot size in the second imaging CCD, and carrying out focusing monitoring on subsequent splicing; and judging whether the focal plane of the objective lens is on the surface of the light polarization sensitive material or not through the contrast of the outline of the imaging light spot projected to the light polarization sensitive material.
Further, step S4 is followed by:
s5, detecting and adjusting the distance between the miniature objective lens and the light polarization sensitive material surface by the imaging detection part, so that the focus surface of the miniature objective lens is always kept on the light polarization sensitive material surface; specifically, step S5 specifically includes:
detecting any value between 550nm and 650nm of wavelength of light emitted by a light source;
the second lens reflects the light spots projected to the light polarization sensitive material surface to the second imaging CCD, the Z-axis servo focusing position is mapped through the light spot diameter, the vertical height of the Z-axis lens is adjusted, the light spot diameter in the second imaging CCD can be always kept to be R, and whether the light polarization sensitive material surface is on the focusing surface of the objective lens or not is judged by detecting the size of the light spots projected to the light polarization sensitive material surface through the second imaging CCD.
S6, recording a single polarized light pattern on the light polarization sensitive material;
and S7, equally dividing any patterned polarization information into a plurality of different polarized light patterns, and performing pattern refreshing and polarization control for a plurality of times to form a pattern recording process.
As a further improvement of the embodiment of the present invention, after step S7, the method further includes:
s8, moving the platform carrying the light polarization sensitive material to the next appointed view field position for the next pattern light field recording;
the polarization pattern of one splicing unit is formed by a plurality of different polarization patterns, wherein in a single polarization pattern, all polarization states are fixed.
The embodiment of the utility model provides an in, step S1 light source collimation mode is including using the LED light source, forms collimated light or uses laser light source through a set of collimating lens, expands laser light source through objective, forms collimated light through lens.
Further, as shown in fig. 4, in step S3, the different reflection states are that the DMD panel splits incident collimated light into two paths for reflection, including forming on-state reflected light in the area where the exposure pattern is formed and forming off-state reflected light in the area where the exposure pattern is not formed;
the on-state reflected light is vertical to the DMD panel and is positioned on a horizontal central axis; collimated light is incident on the DMD panel after passing through the reflecting lens; the incident angle was 12 degrees.
In step S8, the single exposure area can be spliced into a complete pattern light field through the stepping movement of the platform controlled by the motion control part, and a large-format high-precision exposure pattern is formed;
further, the movement control part moves the platform carrying the light polarization sensitive material to the next designated position for the next light orientation after the single polarization pattern is recorded on the light polarization sensitive material in step S6 is realized by the following steps:
the computer control system transmits the position data to the motion control part, the motion control part converts the received data into a control signal and transmits the control signal to the motor driver, the motor driver controls the motion of the motor according to the received control signal, and the detection device is responsible for monitoring the motion of the motor in real time and transmitting the motion position and the motion speed of the motor to the motion control part; and then the motion control part feeds back the current positions and the current speeds of the focusing platform and the sample carrying platform to the computer control system.
The utility model discloses still contain one set of data processing and motion control method, establish the mapping function relation with grey scale and polarization angle: and a is (255-g) 180/256, wherein g is the gray scale value of the image pixel point position and a is the corresponding polarization angle. And decomposing the gray image according to gray values. As shown in fig. 5, one gray scale map includes 3 gray scales, the original image is decomposed into 3 monochrome bitmaps for each gray scale value, each monochrome bitmap has two values of 0 and 1, 1 represents white, and 0 represents black, and the gray scale value represented by 1 in the monochrome bitmap and the gray scale value represented by the monochrome bitmap are at the same position in the original image as the gray scale value, but the pixel values at the positions other than the gray scale value are all 0. Each monochromatic bitmap corresponds to a polarization angle, the 255 gray scale corresponds to the polarization angle of 0 degree, the 128 gray scale corresponds to the polarization angle of 90 degrees, and the 0 gray scale corresponds to the polarization angle of 180 degrees. The pixel value of the monochrome bitmap corresponding to the gray value position is 1, and the rest positions are 0. After the 3 monochromatic bitmaps are uploaded to the DMD control board card in sequence, the control system controls the DMD panel to refresh the 3 monochromatic bitmaps in sequence according to a fixed time interval, and when one monochromatic bitmap is brushed, the control system rotates the polaroid to a specified angle by controlling the rotating motor. In the monochrome bitmap refreshed by the DMD panel, the position with the pixel value of 1 is in the on state, and the position with the pixel value of 0 is in the off state. After passing through the polarizer with the adjusted angle, the light at the on-state position is projected on a photosensitive material to form primary fixed-orientation exposure. Keeping the position of the two-dimensional motion platform unchanged, refreshing 3 monochromatic bitmaps by the DMD, and rotating the polarizing plate for 3 times by the polarization angle to form exposure with 3 orientations, as shown in FIG. 6.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
1. the utility model discloses utilize pulsed lighting system can real-time control the phase change in single exposure area when being applied to high-speed exposure patterning liquid crystal photo-orientation, accomplish the exposure of high accuracy high resolution;
2. the single-frame polarization pattern recording is realized based on single or multiple pulses by utilizing the characteristics of large pulse laser energy, short pulse width and high repetition frequency, and the single-frame polarization pattern recording device has the advantages of large area, high efficiency and good reliability;
3. the utility model discloses a light source adopts ultraviolet or blue light after the beam expanding collimation, adjusts the light field with the phase modulator, can produce different polarization phase place, and the recombination becomes imaging system and carries out the shrink, finally realizes the polarization modulation of arbitrary direction in the unit pixel, has effectively overcome "the problem that polarization orientation is single, the flexibility ratio is low, machining efficiency is low";
4. the utility model adopts the assistance of the focusing servo system to control the objective lens to move up and down, focus in real time and improve the resolution;
5. the utility model adopts the high-precision platform to accurately control the sample to do two-dimensional plane movement, thereby providing favorable conditions for realizing large-format writing;
6. the utility model adopts the light energy not concentrated, and eliminates the abutted seam between each light-operated orientation view field by controlling the relation between the size of a single view field and the single translation distance, thereby improving the resolution;
7. the utility model has the advantages of single exposure polarization pattern high accuracy is controllable wantonly, the large tracts of land is write, efficient, has important meaning to design and preparation jumbo size, high accuracy, multi-functional liquid crystal optical device.
Above-mentioned all optional technical scheme can adopt arbitrary combination to form the optional embodiment of this utility model, and the repeated description is no longer given here.
It should be noted that: in the foregoing embodiment, when the optical alignment apparatus with large-format and arbitrary distribution based on the digital micro-mirror is used to perform an optical alignment method with large-format and arbitrary distribution based on the digital micro-mirror, the above-mentioned division of the functional modules is only used as an example, and in practical applications, the above-mentioned function distribution can be completed by different functional modules according to needs, that is, the internal structure of the system is divided into different functional modules, so as to complete all or part of the above-mentioned functions. In addition, the embodiments of the optical orientation device and the optical orientation method based on the large-format random distribution of the digital micro-mirror provided by the embodiments belong to the same concept, and specific implementation processes thereof are described in the embodiments of the method and are not described herein again.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program instructing relevant hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included within the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. An illumination system for DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device,
the illumination system comprises a pulsed light source;
the illumination system is connected with a dynamic mask generation assembly, the dynamic mask generation assembly comprises a numerical control micro-mirror DMD and an electric adjustable polaroid, and the numerical control micro-mirror DMD and the electric adjustable polaroid are used for dynamically adjusting and controlling the polarization state of incident light from the illumination system;
the pulse repetition light source frequency of the pulse light source is matched with the image refreshing rate of the digital control micro-mirror DMD.
2. The illumination system applied to the DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the illumination system comprises an ultraviolet or blue light source, a collimation and beam expansion system and a polarizer, which are connected in sequence, and the polarizer is connected to the collimation and beam expansion system and used for controlling the initial polarization direction of light and generating a surface light source with any polarization direction within the range of 0-179 degrees.
3. The illumination system applied to the DMD patterned liquid crystal photoalignment device according to claim 1, wherein after the steps of expanding, collimating and splitting, the accumulated energy density of the single or multiple pulsed light beams generated by the pulsed light source is lower than the damage threshold of the phase modulator device at the position of the phase modulator; after the subsequent imaging step, the accumulated energy density is higher than the threshold energy of the light polarization sensitive material on the surface of the sample.
4. The illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the pulsed light source is a pulsed laser or a continuous laser plus mechanical or electro-optical barrier, or a pulsed LED or a continuous LED plus controllable barrier system.
5. The illumination system of claim 2, wherein the pulsed light source emits pulsed light, which passes through the collimating and beam-expanding system and the polarizer to form a collimated and uniform spot with a divergence angle of less than 10mrad and a uniformity of light intensity of better than 80%.
6. The illumination system applied to the DMD patterned liquid crystal photoalignment device of claim 1, wherein the repetition frequency of the pulsed light source is 1Hz to 10 kHz;
the pulse width of the pulse light source is in the range of picoseconds to seconds, and the energy of a single pulse is in the range of nano-focus to millifocus.
7. The illumination system of claim 1, wherein the wavelength of the pulsed light source is between 340nm and 600nm, and the half width of the pulsed light source is less than 5 nm.
8. The illumination system applied to the DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device according to claim 7, wherein the central wavelength drift amplitude of the pulsed light source is less than 3nm in a constant temperature and humidity environment; the half-wave width of the light source is less than 5nm, and the energy of the pulse light source which is higher than eighty percent is concentrated in the half-width of the central wavelength;
the phase error of the central wavelength drift, the half width, the temperature and the wave plate error of the pulse light source to the polarization degree of the output pattern of the polarization pattern generation component is less than 1 percent.
9. The illumination system of claim 2, wherein the collimation and beam expansion system is configured to adjust a line light source or a point light source into a parallel surface light source and output the parallel surface light source to the dynamic mask generation assembly.
10. The illumination system of claim 1, wherein the DMD patterned liquid crystal photo-alignment device comprises an illumination system, a dynamic mask generation assembly, an imaging detection assembly, a focus servo system and a motion control component, which are arranged in sequence;
the imaging detection component is used for detecting the generated pattern imaging; the focal length servo system comprises a normally open light source insensitive to light polarization sensitive materials and a vertical direction correction assembly, and is used for correcting the defocusing phenomenon generated by movement;
the motion control component is used for adjusting the spatial position of the platform carrying the light polarization sensitive material so as to realize light field splicing.
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