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Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Phase Modulator and its Applications

  • Hara, Tsutomu
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.939-942
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    • 2002
  • The optically addressed and electrically addressed spatial phase only light modulators without pixelized structures have been developed. A sufficient phase modulation capability and a high diffraction efficiency of these devices are useful for practical applications.

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A STUDY ON THE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR WITH PISTON PLUS TILT MODE OPERATION USING SURFACE MICROMACHINING TECHNOLOGY (표면 미세 가공 기술을 이용한 상하운동 및 회전운동을 하는 광 변조기에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Seok-Hwan;Kim, Yong-Gwon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.140-148
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, using surface micromachining technology with thick photoresist and aluminum, an SLM(Spatial Light Modulator), which is applied to the fields of adaptive optics and pattern recognition system, was fabricated and the electromechanical properties of the fabricated micro SLM are measured. In order to maximize fill-factor and remove mechanical coupling between micro SLM actuators, the micro SLM is composed of three aluminum layers so that spring structure and upper electrode are placed beneath the mirror plate, and $10\times10$ each mirror plate is individually actuated. Also, the micro SLM was designed to be able to modulate phase and amplitude of incoming light in order to have a continuity of phase modulation of incoming light. In the case of amplitude and phase modulation, maximum vertical displacement is 4$\mum$, and maximum angular displacement is $\pm4.6^{\corc}$ respectively. The height difference of the fabricated mirror plate was able to be reduced to 1100A with mirror plate planarization method using negative photoresist(AZ5214). The electromechanical properties of the fabricated micro SLM were measured with the optical measurement system using He-Ne laser and PSD(position sensitive device).

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Implementation of real-time free-space optical interconnection using spatial light modulator (공간광변조기를 이용한 실시간 자유공간 광연결 구현)

  • Lee, Deug-Ju;Kang, Bong-Gyun;Kim, Nam;Suh, Ho-Hyung
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.956-966
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    • 1997
  • Dynamic free-space optical interconnection system is experimented by a holographic crossbar with single-state switching architecture. For dynamic operation, electrically addressed liquid-crystal spatial light modulator and diffraction gratings are used in place of passive holograms of matrix-matrix crossbar. Diffraction gratings are consisted of regular cells which have different phase delays. This pixelated phase grating array displayed on SLM(Spatial Light modulator) deflects an input beam toward a wanted direction or splits an input beam into many beams and then steers them to desired positions. Through the experimental results, free-space optical interconnection is dynamically perfomed using a computer, SLM and phase diffraction gratings.

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Diagnosis of Unstained Biological Blood Cells Using a Phase Hologram Displayed by a Phase-only Spatial Light Modulator and Reconstructed by a Fourier Lens

  • Ibrahim, Dahi Ghareab Abdelslam
    • 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.

OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLS INJECTION KICKER MODULATOR (포항방사광가속기 킼커 대출력 펄스전원장치 운전특성)

  • Nam, S.H.;Jeong, S.H.;Ko, I.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07e
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    • pp.1800-1802
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    • 1998
  • The Pohang Light Source (PLS) is a third generation 2 GeV synchrotron machine. An injection kicker modulator is positioned in the PLS storage ring tunnel. The kicker modulator is driving four kicker magnets simultaneously. The kicker magnets produce magnetic field to deflect the stored beam orbit in the storage ring closer to the injected beam from the PLS beam transfer line. The injected beam then falls into the storage ring beam dynamic aperture. The current kicker modulator was upgraded and installed on August 1995. Since then, the kicker modulator has shown very reliable and stable performance. The kicker modulator specifications are ${\sim}6.0{\mu}s$ full width, ${\sim}24$ kA peak current, and 10 Hz repetition rate. Output current waveform is a half sinusoid. Two thyratron switches(EEV CX-1536AX) are used in the kicker modulator. Total accumulated thyratron heater run hour is about 15,000 hours as of May 1998. Measurement result of spatial magnetic field distribution in the kicker magnet shows good uniformity.

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Three-dimensional Binocular Holographic Display Using Liquid Crystal Shutter

  • Kim, Hyun-Eui;Kim, Hee-Seung;Jeong, Kyeong-Min;Park, Jae-Hyeung
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.345-351
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    • 2011
  • We present a novel approach to the holographic three-dimensional display using a liquid crystal shutter for binocular display applications. One of the difficult problems in implementing a binocular holographic three-dimensional display is the extremely narrow viewing angle. This problem is attributed to the spatial light modulator pixel number which restricts the maximum spatial bandwidth of the spatial light modulator. In our proposed method, a beam splitter and liquid crystal shutter are used to present two holograms of a three-dimensional scene to the corresponding eyes. The combination of holographic display and liquid crystal shutter can overcome the problem of the extremely narrow viewing angle, presenting threedimensional images to both eyes with correct accommodation depth cues.

Optical Implementation of Nonlinear Holographic Associative Memory using LCTV Spatial Light Modulator (LCTV 공간 광 변조기를 이용한 비선형 홀로그래픽 연상메모리의 광학적 실현)

  • 황의인;이승현;이우상;김은수
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.26 no.11
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    • pp.1872-1879
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    • 1989
  • In this paper, we implement optical holographic associative memory based on the two-dimensional neural network model by using commercial LCTV as a spatial light modulator. The system consists of the simple Vander Lugt correlator utilizing plane Fourier hologram and the pinhole array. The associated output signal is detected on a two-dimensional CCD camera and electronically thresholded and fed back to the input plane of the system. Through the experimental demonstration of nonlinear holographic associative memory, it is suggested that commercial LCTV can be used as a new coherent spatial light modurator.

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Mach-Zehnder Type Tandem Optical Switch/Modulator using a Single-Mode Interconnecting Waveguide and Its Switching Characteristics

  • Choi, Young-Kyu
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.287-291
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, an optical switch/modulator is designed and its light propagating characteristics analyzed using a simplified BPM. The distinctive feature of this switch/modulator is that all its waveguide branches are designed as single-mode. The principle of the device is based on the coupled mode theory in the Y-junction interconnecting waveguide. In spite of the fact all waveguides are designed as single-mode, by adjusting the interconnecting waveguide length'of the device the same characteristics as existing up to date devices are obtainable. Numerical results show that the switching characteristics periodically depend upon an interconnecting waveguide length with a spatial of about $150^{{\mu}m}$ in the $Ti:LiNbO_3$ step index waveguide. The design concept would therefore be utilized effectively in fabricating a monolithic high density optical integrated circuit.

Magneto-Optic Spatial Light Modulator (자기광학 공간 광 변조기)

  • Cho, Jaekyong
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.08a
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    • pp.166-169
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    • 2000
  • This paper briefly reviews magneto-optic spatial light modulators (MOSLMs) developed so far and discusses the design concepts, issues concerning its fabrication, and performances of a new MOSLM based on one-dimensional magnetophotonic crystal (1D-MPC). (omitted)

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Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm Based on the Segmentation of Target Image for a High-Speed Binary Spatial Light Modulator

  • Im, Yeonsu;Kim, Hwi;Hahn, Joonku
    • 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.