Optical path of spatial light modulator

With phase modulation, an optical path difference of up to one full-wave is produced between adjacent pixels of the Spatial Light Modulators. The output intensity remains uniform. Spatial Light Modulators are also used for amplitude control or modulation. Our SLMs consist of liquid crystal (LC) pixels, each independently addressed, acting as separate variable retarders. The device operates by encoding spatial information in frequency bins via a broadband optical phase modulator, and decoding them via a first-of-its-kind, high-resolution 2D spectrometer. A simple example is an overhead projector transparency. The use of LC. Manipulation of light at the nanoscale is cornerstone for the realization of miniaturized optical devices with enhanced efficiencies. Among the various spatial light modula-tor (SLM) technologies, e. [pdf]