Speeding up liquid crystal SLMs using overdrive with phase change reduction

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1779-1797

  Thalhammer, Gregor ^a   Bowman, Richard W ^b   Love, Gordon D ^c   Padgett, Miles J ^b   Ritsch Marte, Monika ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

BEAM-STEERING; DIFFRACTED LIGHT; FAST SWITCHING; HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR; OPTICAL BEAM STEERING; OVER CURRENT; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE PATTERNS; SPEED ENHANCEMENT; SPEED UP; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TARGET PATTERNS; TRANSITION TIME;

DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITION; REFRACTOMETRY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874070481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001779     Document Type: Article

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