2017
DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.029874
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Comparison of nematic liquid-crystal and DMD based spatial light modulation in complex photonics

Abstract: Digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) have recently emerged as practical spatial light modulators (SLMs) for applications in photonics, primarily due to their modulation rates, which exceed by several orders of magnitude those of the already well-established nematic liquid crystal (LC)-based SLMs. This, however, comes at the expense of limited modulation depth and diffraction efficiency. Here we compare the beam-shaping fidelity of both technologies when applied to light control in complex environments, includin… Show more

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“…This allows us to use this platform to emulate the coherent absorption effect close to the critical transmission of 0.5. The state-of-the-art γ of 0.6(0.8) was experimentally reported in a step-index MMF for a conserved circular input polarization (both linear polarization channels) [30,49,50].…”
Section: Fidelity Scalability and Programmability Of The Opticalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This allows us to use this platform to emulate the coherent absorption effect close to the critical transmission of 0.5. The state-of-the-art γ of 0.6(0.8) was experimentally reported in a step-index MMF for a conserved circular input polarization (both linear polarization channels) [30,49,50].…”
Section: Fidelity Scalability and Programmability Of The Opticalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the main limiting factors of our demonstrations is the switching speed of the used liquid-crystal-based SLM, which is limited to 60 Hz. A faster generation method is possible using commercially available SLMs based on the use of digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) [55]. Using the multimode encoding technique that we proposed in III-B2 can increase the transmission rate by having multiple spatially separated patterns on the same detector instead of only one.…”
Section: Practical Implementationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) modulators [29,30] and digital micro-mirror devices (DMD) [31] are two commercial spatial light modulators capable of achieving sub-millisecond response [24]. Such a small panel size can be easily integrated into an optical machine or an embedded system.…”
Section: Switching Time For Phase Modulationmentioning
confidence: 99%