Transmission variations in liquid crystal spatial light modulators caused by interference and diffraction effects

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1051-1057

  Davis, Jeffrey A ^a   Tsai, Philbert ^a   Cottrell, Don M ^a   Sonehara, Tomio ^b   Amako, Jun ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE MODULATION;

PARALLEL-ALIGNED LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (LCSLM);

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0032670886     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602149     Document Type: Article

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