Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators

A Forbes, A Dudley, M McLaren - Advances in optics and photonics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Modal decomposition of light has been known for a long time, applied mostly to pattern
recognition. With the commercialization of liquid-crystal devices, digital holography as an …

Review of bio-optical imaging systems with a high space-bandwidth product

J Park, DJ Brady, G Zheng, L Tian… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical imaging has served as a primary method to collect information about biosystems
across scales—from functionalities of tissues to morphological structures of cells and even at …

Liquid crystal lenses with tunable focal length

YH Lin, YJ Wang, V Reshetnyak - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Lenses with tunable focal length play important roles in nature by hel** species avoid
predators and capture prey. Many practical devices mimic lens concept for imaging, sensing …

[LIBRO][B] Principles of adaptive optics

RK Tyson, BW Frazier - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of
adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the …

Structured light with digital micromirror devices: a guide to best practice

S Scholes, R Kara, J Pinnell… - Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Digital micromirror devices (DMDs) have become ubiquitous as spatial light modulators in
the optics community, but ambiguity remains on how best to implement them in a laboratory …

Controlling light through optical disordered media: transmission matrix approach

SM Popoff, G Lerosey, M Fink, AC Boccara… - New Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We experimentally measure the monochromatic transmission matrix (TM) of an optical
multiple scattering medium using a spatial light modulator together with a phase-shifting …

Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre-and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link

Y Ren, G **e, H Huang, N Ahmed, Y Yan, L Li, C Bao… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
As a recently explored property of light, orbital angular momentum (OAM) has potential in
enabling multiplexing of multiple data-carrying beams, to increase the transmission capacity …

Liquid-crystal photonic applications

J Beeckman, K Neyts, PJM Vanbrabant - Optical Engineering, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Liquid crystals are nowadays widely used in all types of display applications. However their
unique electro-optic properties also make them a suitable material for nondisplay …

Comparison of beam generation techniques using a phase only spatial light modulator

TW Clark, RF Offer, S Franke-Arnold, AS Arnold… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Whether in art or for QR codes, images have proven to be both powerful and efficient
carriers of information. Spatial light modulators allow an unprecedented level of control over …

Metasurface-based optical liquid crystal cell as an ultrathin spatial phase modulator for THz applications

O Buchnev, N Podoliak, K Kaltenecker, M Walther… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A concept of an efficient ultrathin spatial phase modulator for correcting terahertz wavefronts
in transmission with subwavelength spatial resolution is experimentally demonstrated. It …