Modeling, simulation, and analysis of birefringent effects in plastic optics

Achyut Adhikari; Anand Asundi

doi:10.1117/12.2191230

23 September 2015 Modeling, simulation, and analysis of birefringent effects in plastic optics

Achyut Adhikari, Anand Asundi

Proceedings Volume 9626, Optical Systems Design 2015: Optical Design and Engineering VI; 96260I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191230
Event: SPIE Optical Systems Design, 2015, Jena, Germany

Abstract

Plastic optics has been widely used in different application. They have been facing birefringent effects during manufacturing or during certain application. Finite element modeling of plastic optics in CAD interface is done along with experimental and theoretical comparison of the specimen with the help of solid mechanics and image processing. Low birefringence plastic optics is chosen for the experiment and varying load is applied to observe the characteristics both in experiment and simulation. Low birefringence polariscope was used to measure the birefringence in the plastic specimen. Birefringence is caused due to many effects like stress induced birefringence temperature induced due to thermal gradient and pressure during manufacturing. Here stress is induced on low birefringence specimen by two point compression loading and is compared on the base of solid mechanics, finite element modeling and image processing. The results were found to be similar and convincing.

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Achyut Adhikari and Anand Asundi "Modeling, simulation, and analysis of birefringent effects in plastic optics", Proc. SPIE 9626, Optical Systems Design 2015: Optical Design and Engineering VI, 96260I (23 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2191230

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