Study of wire electrical discharge machined folded-up corner cube retroreflector with a tunable cantilever beam

Yu-Fan Chen; Yen-Hung Wang; Jui-che Tsai

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.3.035104

28 March 2018 Study of wire electrical discharge machined folded-up corner cube retroreflector with a tunable cantilever beam

Yu-Fan Chen, Yen-Hung Wang, Jui-che Tsai

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 3, 035104 (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.035104

Abstract

This work has developed an approach to construct a corner cube retroreflector (CCR). A two-dimensional cutout pattern is first fabricated with wire electrical discharge machining process. It is then folded up into a three-dimensional CCR suspended on a cantilever beam. The folded-up CCR may be driven through external actuators for optical modulation; it can also mechanically respond to perturbation, acceleration, etc., to function as a sensor. Mechanical (static and dynamic modeling) and optical (ray tracing) analyses are also performed.

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Yu-Fan Chen, Yen-Hung Wang, and Jui-che Tsai "Study of wire electrical discharge machined folded-up corner cube retroreflector with a tunable cantilever beam," Optical Engineering 57(3), 035104 (28 March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.3.035104

Received: 9 October 2017; Accepted: 14 February 2018; Published: 28 March 2018

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