Comparison of nematic liquid-crystal and DMD based spatial light modulation in complex photonics

Sergey Turtaev; Ivo T. Leite; Kevin J. Mitchell; Miles J. Padgett; David B. Phillips; Tomas  Cizmar

doi:10.1364/OE.25.029874

Comparison of nematic liquid-crystal and DMD based spatial light modulation in complex photonics

Sergey Turtaev, Ivo T. Leite, Kevin J. Mitchell, Miles J. Padgett, David B. Phillips, Tomas Cizmar (Lead / Corresponding author)

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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 di raction e ciency. Here we compare the beam-shaping fidelity of both technologies when applied to light control in complex environments, including an aberrated optical system, a highly scattering layer and a multimode optical fibre. We show that, despite their binary amplitude-only modulation, DMDs are capable of higher beam-shaping fidelity compared to LC-SLMs in all considered regimes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29874-29884
Number of pages	11
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	25
Issue number	24
Early online date	15 Nov 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.029874
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2017

Keywords

Spatial light modulators
Liquid-crystal devices
Optical microelectromechanical devices
Active or adaptive optics
Fiber optics imaging

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Cochran, S. (Investigator), Cuschieri, A. (Investigator), Khan, F. (Investigator), Lamond, A. (Investigator), MacDonald, M. (Investigator), McGloin, D. (Investigator), Nathke, I. (Investigator), Rafailov, E. (Investigator), Read, K. (Investigator), Swedlow, J. (Investigator), Swift, S. (Investigator), Tanaka, T. (Investigator) & Weijer, K. (Investigator)
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