D. McCallum, X. R. Huang, A. Smirl, D. Sun, E. Towe
{"title":"Polarization Rotation Modulator in a Strained [110]-Oriented Multiple Quantum Well","authors":"D. McCallum, X. R. Huang, A. Smirl, D. Sun, E. Towe","doi":"10.1063/1.113462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.113462","url":null,"abstract":"Optical modulators with a high contrast ratio are desirable for use in optical information processing applications. Devices based on semiconductor multiple quantum wells are of particular interest because of the possibility of combining modulators with detectors and electronic components on a single substrate to make high-speed smart-pixel arrays. However, it is difficult to obtain large contrast ratios in conventional MQW modulators, which function by using the quantum confined Stark effect to modify the absorption coefficient of the MQW. For example, a typical p-i(MQW)-n modulator has a contrast ratio of 3:1 to 5:1, although contrast ratios as high as 10:1 have been obtained. Fabry-Perot cavities have been used to increase the contrast ratio to 100:1, but at the expense of optical bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126816307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High yield, low cost Fabry-Perot modulators utilizing correctable partial anti-reflection coatings","authors":"K. Goossen, J. Cunningham, W. Jan, J. Centanni","doi":"10.1063/1.113567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.113567","url":null,"abstract":"Many systems are contemplated that use surface-normal multiple quantum well (MQW) modulators to imprint data on optical beams. These include \"smart pixel\" digital processors,1 as well as image processors that employ spatial light modulators. These modulators are typically pi( MQW)-n diodes, grown by techniques such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), wherein an integral multilayer mirror is produced underneath the MQW. By reverse biasing the diode the MQW’s absorption is modified and hence the reflectivity of the device is modulated. In simple designs a perfect anti-reflection coating is placed on the surface so multiple reflections do not occur within the modulator. This has the advantage that no strict control of the overall thickness of the device is required.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133517151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generalised dynamic holographic interconnects using spatial light modulators","authors":"D. O'Brien, T. Wilkinson, R. Mears, W. Crossland","doi":"10.1364/slma.1993.swc.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/slma.1993.swc.2","url":null,"abstract":"Applications such as optical neural networks often require a programmable weighted optical interconnect between ‘neurons’.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122161491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phase Characteristics of Reflection Electro-Absorption Modulators","authors":"Daxin Liu, B. Pezeshki, S. Lord, J. Harris","doi":"10.1063/1.109454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.109454","url":null,"abstract":"Asymmetric Fabry-Perot(F-P) reflection modulators1 with multi-quantum well cavities perform as excellent intensity modulators with high contrasts and large reflectivity changes. In addition to the intensity modulation caused by the absorption changes in the cavity, an accompanying phase modulation results from the refractive index changes that correlate with the absorption change through the Kramers-Kronig transformation2-3.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"81 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133037947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical Data Processing With Bacteriorhodopsin And Its Genetically Modified Variants","authors":"C. Bräuchle, N. Hampp","doi":"10.1080/10587259208028747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10587259208028747","url":null,"abstract":"BR from Halobacterium halobium [1] is embedded as a twodimensional crystallin lattice of BR-trimers in the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128434322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Bunch, Jeffrey A. Davis, D. Cottrell, Ethan A. Merrill
{"title":"Effects of Sampling and Binarization on the Output of the Joint Fourier Transform Correlator","authors":"R. Bunch, Jeffrey A. Davis, D. Cottrell, Ethan A. Merrill","doi":"10.1117/12.55701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55701","url":null,"abstract":"The joint Fourier transform correlator (JFTC) architecture1-3 is of great interest since prior knowledge of the target is not required. However spurious peaks in the output plane have been reported from the use of binary SLMs for recording the joint power spectrum4. In this work, we analyze various causes for these kinds of anomalous results.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130643627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
U. Efron, W. Stanchina, I. Rouse, W. Y. Wu, N. Goodwin, P. G. Reif, Shin‐Tson Wu, M. Welkowsky
{"title":"A Schottky Diode Liquid Crystal Light Valve","authors":"U. Efron, W. Stanchina, I. Rouse, W. Y. Wu, N. Goodwin, P. G. Reif, Shin‐Tson Wu, M. Welkowsky","doi":"10.1364/slma.1988.wa1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/slma.1988.wa1","url":null,"abstract":"We have recently developed and demonstrated a Schottky-diode-based LCLV. The concept is to use a Schottky metal-semiconductor interface which allows depletion through the silicon to be attained and thus maintain the impedance match between the photoconductor and the liquid crystal. This match is critical in achieving the operation of a photoactivated SLM.(1) Since a high Schottky barrier-forming metal such as aluminum or platinum can be deposited on the n-type silicon substrate at low temperature, the silicon substrate can first be mounted on a flat glass substrate, polished, and then processed. This allows a high degree of output uniformity to be attained. Secondly, by eliminating the SiO2 insulator present in our MOS LCLV version,(2) one can reduce the sheet conductivity at the Si/LC interface and achieve higher resolution and dynamic range.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125012526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resolution Limits of an Imaging System with Incompressible Deformable Spatial Light Modulators","authors":"B. Kuhlcw, G. Mahler, R. Tepe","doi":"10.1364/slma.1988.thb4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/slma.1988.thb4","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial light modulator (SIM) considered here consists of a thin incompressible viscous fluid layer and is addressed by an electron beam. As a consequence of the deposited charge image, the fluid surface is deformed by electrostatic stresses. For the incident light, this surface deformation represents a phase object causing phase modulation and thus diffraction. The conversion of this (invisible) phase modulation into a (visible) intensity modulation is achieved by means of a schlieren-optical imaging system. In previous publications [1,2], the transfer characteristics of the system for sinusoidal charge patterns, which lead to sinusoidal deformations because of the control-layer's linear transfer function, were extensively described; here, the transfer characteristics of the same system for spatially non-periodic structures are analyzed, and the resolution limits caused by the incompressibility of the SIM material and by the optical filtering are determined.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125026196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Light Modulators in Multimode Fibers","authors":"M. El-Sherif","doi":"10.1364/slma.1988.the14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/slma.1988.the14","url":null,"abstract":"An external field applied to a modified multimode fiber induces modal power redistribution. This technique is examined for spatial light modulators, and promising results are obtained.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116042786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variable-Sensitivity Analog Response from an Optically-Addressable Spatial Light Modulator","authors":"B. Landreth, G. Moddel","doi":"10.1364/slma.1990.tub6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/slma.1990.tub6","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a variable-sensitivity analog response from an optically-addressed spatial light modulator. The device comprises a hydrogenated amorphous silicon photodiode and a surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal light modulator. The write-light intensity required to obtain 50% readout intensity can be varied continuously from 15 µW/cm2 to 1.5 mW/cm2 by changing the frequency of the applied bias voltage from 100 Hz to 2 kHz.","PeriodicalId":188204,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Light Modulators and Applications","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122590738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}