Spiking voltages for faster switching of nematic liquid-crystal light modulators

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3136-3143

  Xun, Xiaodong ^a   Cho, Doo Jin ^a,b   Cohn, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FERROELECTRICITY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL CORRELATION; SWITCHING;

DIGITAL CORRECTION; PIXEL; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM); SPIKING VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745032622     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003136     Document Type: Article

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11. A video (avi format) at http://pyramid.spd.louisville.edu/~eri/papers_pres/speedup.avi shows the transient diffraction patterns with a 70 ms spiking frame without spiking (movie on left) and with spiking (movie on right). Figures 7(a) and 7(b) shows steady state images with the same field of view as the two movies in the avi file.
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