• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.598-607
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• 2022

In this paper, a simple nondestructive technology is used to investigate unstained biological blood cells in three dimensions (3D). The technology employs a reflective phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) for displaying the phase hologram of the object being tested, and a Fourier lens for its reconstruction. The phase hologram is generated via superposing a digital random phase on the 2D image of the object. The phase hologram is then displayed by the SLM with 256 grayscale levels, and reconstructed by a Fourier lens to present the object in 3D. Since noise is the main problem in this method, the windowed Fourier filtering (WFF) method is applied to suppress the noise of the reconstructed object. The quality of the reconstructed object is refined and the noise level suppressed by approximately 40%. The technique is applied to objects: the National Institute of Standards (NIS) logo, and a film of unstained peripheral blood. Experimental results show that the proposed technique can be used for rapid investigation of unstained biological blood cells in 3D for disease diagnosis. Moreover, it can be used for viewing unstained white blood cells, which is still challenging with an optical microscope, even at large magnification.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2008

In this paper, a new high resolution XGA-SLM is implemented through modification of a commercial TFT-LCD beam projector and its optical modulation characteristics as a spatial light modulator(SLM) is also analyzed. That is, the optics module, projection lamp and fans are removed from a commercial beam projector and instead, some electric circuits to compensate their removal are manufactured and then, by inserting them into the beam projector, a new XGA-SLM is finally implemented. From some characteristic experimental results of the implemented high resolution TFT-LCD SLM, the proposed TFT-SLM is found to have an good optical linearity in amplitude and phase modulation characteristics as a function of the input gray levels. Especially, through implementation of the suggested TFT-LCD panel, the implemented SLM is proposed as a new relatively low-cost and high resolution SLM for optical information processing.

• Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.214-218
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• 2006

The focus and tracking servo system has been designed and proposed for the holographic memory of one dimensional spatial light modulator(SLM). The general servo method of conventional ODD system was based and modified for new holographic memory. The pre-grooved disc pattern and special dichroic coating were also included for new design in this research and the final separated optics are expected to be applied to the future general holographic memory as well as the one dimensional SLM holographic memory.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.215-219
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• 2019

Chromatic aberrations induced by Risley prisms made of a single material can be substantially compensated using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator while still keeping the prism pairs compact, simple and lightweight. A ${\pm}10^{\circ}$ optical scanning imaging system with ${\pm}2^{\circ}$instantaneous field based on LC-SLM correction is designed as an example. The ultimate simulation results show that this kind of scheme is an effective way of improving imaging performance dynamically across the full field of scanning.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.149-153
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• 2015

A digital micro-mirror device (DMD) has the potential to modulate an incident wave with high speed, and the application for holographic display has been studied by many researchers. However, the quality of reconstructed image isn't good in comparison with that from a gray-scale amplitude-only hologram since it is a binary amplitude-only spatial light modulator (SLM). In this paper, we suggest a method generating a set of binary holograms to improve the quality of the reconstructed image. Here, we are concerned with the case for which the object plane is positioned at the Fourier domain of the plane of the SLM. In this case, any point in the Fourier plane is related to all points in the hologram. So there is a chance to generate a set of binary holograms illuminated by incident wave with constant optical power. Moreover, we find an interesting fact that the quality of reconstructed image is improved when the spatial frequency bandwidth of the binary hologram is limited. Therefore, we propose an iterative segmentation algorithm generating a set of binary holograms that are designed to be illuminated by the wave with constant optical power. The feasibility of our method is experimentally confirmed with a DMD.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.659-665
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• 2008

We demonstrate experimentally that the method of Two-pupil optical scanning technique with PAL-spatial light modulator is capable of performing real-time joint transform correlation(JTC) optical system. Optical addressing is achieved by the use of a photosensitive layer of $\alpha$ - Si which controls the electric field across the liquid crystal The demonstrated technique is based on two-pupil optical heterodyne scanning. The method is independent of a spatial light modulator (SLM) in the Fourier plane. We develop the theory of the technique and evaluate a performance of the method by experimentally estimating the correlation between the target image and the reference image.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.262-263
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• 2002

오늘날 정보화 사회가 세계적으로 구축됨에 따라 초고속 광네트워크 사이의 통신용량의 급격한 증가로 인하여 대용량의 정보를 초고속으로 처리할 광스위치의 필요성이 심각하게 대두되고 있다.[1] 현재 연구되고 있는 광스위치 중에는 광도파로 형테와 MEMS형, 기계식 형태가 있다.[2] 그러나 이들 형태의 광스위치는 대용량과 초고속이라는 두 개의 기능을 동시에 수행하기에는 기술적 어려움이 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2003

광통신 시스템에는 다양한 광소자들이 삽입되어 사용된다. 특히 보다 많은 정보의 전송을 위하여 WBM 소자들이 흔히 사용되고 있다. 이와 같이 data 처리용량 및 속도 증가에 대응하기 위한 광섬유의 개발이 활발하게 연구되고 있으며 data 전송용량이 증가되면 channel 파장 대역폭이 좁아지게 되고 전송 속도가 증가되면 색분산 등 광섬유의 비선형성에 의한 영향이 크게 나타나게 된다. 또한 장거리 통신망 등에서는 온도 변화에 의해 분산 기울기 변화가 전송 제한 요인이 된다. (중략)

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.53-62
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• 2019

물체가 지닌 3차원 정보를 가장 완벽하게 복원해 내는 디스플레이 기술인 홀로그램은 오랜 기간 사진과 같은 형태의 정지상 영상으로만 재현이 되었으나, 최근 급격하게 발전한 5G 수준의 데이터 통신기술과 초고해상도 디스플레이 기술의 발달로 동영상 재생이 가능한 수준에 다다르고 있다. 디지털 홀로그램 기술을 통해 만들어진 computer generated hologram 패턴을 실제 광학적으로 송출해 내는 디스플레이 장치라 할 수 있는 Spatial Light Modulator(SLM)은 최근 LCoS, DMD 등 다양한 방식으로 구현되고 있으나, 아직까지 구동 면적의 크기 및 픽셀 간격의 측면에서 아날로그 홀로그램과 비슷한 수준의 영상을 구현하기에는 다소 어려움이 있는 것이 사실이다. 이에 본 고에서는 다양한 방식으로 접근되고 있는 기존 SLM의 성능 분석 및 차세대 SLM 기술 동향을 소개하고 SLM의 성능 개선 없이도 홀로그램 영상의 화질 수준을 개선할 수 있는 다양한 기술들에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.70-77
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• 2016

This paper proposes an optical system for complex holographic display that enhances the quality of the reconstructed three-dimensional image. This work focuses on a new design for an optical system and the evaluation of the complex holographic display, using a single spatial light modulator (SLM) and a circular grating. The optical system is based on a 4-f system in which the imaginary and real information of the hologram is displayed on concentric rectangular areas of the SLM and circular grating. Thus, this method overcomes the lack of accuracy in the pixel positions between two window holograms in previous studies, and achieves a higher intensity of the real object points of the reconstructed hologram than the original phase-reconstructed hologram. The proposed method provides approximately 30% less NMRS (Normal Root Mean Square) error, compared to previous systems, which is verified by both simulation and optical experiment.