Liquid crystal spatial light modulators (LC-SLMs) and wavelength selective switches (WSSs) represent pivotal components in modern photonics, enabling dynamic control over light properties in a variety ...

Figure 1: Sculpturing light by digital control. A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.230026 overviews liquid crystal spatial light modulators devices and applications.

Insights into coherence synthesis in nonlinear optics highlight the role of spatial coherence in shaping second harmonic ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have achieved groundbreaking results in generating arbitrary light distributions. These ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have achieved groundbreaking results in generating arbitrary light distributions. These ...

Spatial Light Modulators that use both translucent and reflective liquid crystal micro-display technology to dynamically modify the amplitude and/or phase of incident light one pixel at a time. Users ...

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