Highly stable wavefront control using a hybrid liquid-crystal spatial light modulator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6306, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Inoue, Takashi ^a   Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Fukuchi, Norihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Yuji ^a   Hara, Tsutomu ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Compensation; Laser processing; Liquid crystal; Nonlinearity; Nonuniformity; Optical manipulation; Phase modulation; Spatial light modulator; Wavefront control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE MODULATION; WAVEFRONTS;

LASER PROCESSING; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; PHASE STROKES; WAVEFRONT CONTROL;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 33750684659     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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