A liquid crystal light valve (LCLV), also known as a spatial light modulator (SLM), is an optical device that modulates the intensity, phase, or polarization of light passing through it using liquid crystal technology. LCLVs consist of a layer of...

A type of optical modulator with potential application in optical switching and displays, in which applied voltage causes a...

A spatial light modulator (SLM) is an optical device that modulates or manipulates the amplitude, phase, or polarization of...

That voltage required across a Pockels, Kerr or other electro-optic light modulator to retard one polarization electrical...

A Pockels cell in which electrical current is applied in a direction orthogonally to that of the light beam.

Also known as RAMP microscopy, random access multiphoton microscopy is a microscopic technique that uses multiple...

An electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a device used to modulate the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves using an...

Indium phosphide (InP) is a compound semiconductor material composed of indium (In) and phosphorus (P). It belongs to the...

A monolithic device containing both photonic and electronic sources, detectors, modulators, etc., on a single semiconductor...

A holographic camera, also known as a holographic imaging system or holographic recorder, is a specialized device used to...

A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is an optical device used to measure the phase difference between two collimated beams of...

A device to modulate spatially a collimated coherent beam of light with input data in optical data processing. It uses a...

A spatial light modulator consisting of a metallized polymer film stretched over an array of metal-oxide semiconductor...

A type of matched filter that responds only to the phase of incoming light; the output has a much greater intensity than...

An optical correlator incorporating a binary phase-only spatial light modulator made from an iron garnet magneto-optic solid...

A detector and signal demodulator used in optical communications systems to receive a signal and often to translate it into...

An instrument with a fluid that modulates a light beam traversing it because of the effect of ultrasonic waves passing...

A crystalline ferroelectric material used primarily as a substrate and an active medium for thin-film optical modulators and...

Second-order nonlinear optical properties refer to a class of phenomena exhibited by certain materials in response to...

An acousto-optic modulator (AOM) is a device that utilizes the interaction between sound waves and light waves to modulate...

Characteristic of an acousto-optic modulator, defined by the overlap integral of the incident light and sound field...

Spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) is an optical microscopy technique that belongs to the category of quantitative...

A nonlinear crystal used to modulate a polarized beam of light by means of the Pockels effect. A Pockels cell is used as a...

Optical materials refer to substances or compounds specifically chosen for their optical properties and used in the...

An array of active optical devices (modulators, laser diodes and/or detectors), each of whose electrical inputs or outputs...

A device that varies the amplitude and phase of a light beam; e.g., from a laser or by sound waves. Also known as a Bragg...

A modulator is a device or component that modifies a carrier signal in order to encode information for transmission over a...

In optics, the Pockels effect refers to the phenomenon where the refractive index of a material changes in response to an...

A Pockels cell, also known as an electro-optic modulator, is an optical device used to control the polarization of light by...

Gain-switching is a technique used in lasers to generate short pulses of light by modulating the gain of the laser medium....

The optical Fourier transform is a mathematical operation applied to optical signals that involves transforming a spatial...

1. The direct storage of data as bits in memory using optical systems and properties. The memory makes use of a laser beam...

Laser optics refers to a broad category of optical components and systems designed for manipulating and controlling laser...

Laser-powered telephone device for analog communications that employs a vibrating plastic membrane as a transmitter to...

Modulator/demodulator. An electronic device that modulates and demodulates signals transmitted over communications lines.

Optoelectronics is a branch of electronics that focuses on the study and application of devices and systems that use light...

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a compact and integrated device that incorporates multiple photonic components and...

Magneto-optics refers to the study and manipulation of the interaction between magnetic fields and light (electromagnetic...

A device incorporating a spatial light modulator and a reference filter; used for matching an input optical waveform or...

The fraction of incident light power in an optical modulator that is available to the output beam.

The angle between the most divergent rays that can pass through the lens to form an image. In a birefringent crystal light...

Pockels cell or dynamic optical retarder in which the electrical field is applied in a direction parallel to that of light...

A device that combines electronic and optical techniques to form a monitored infrared signal between 1 and 14 µm. It...

Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers,...

A crystal-based device that combines and adjusts the intensities of multiple wavelengths of laser light in order to obtain...

Interferometric modulator display (IMOD) is a type of display technology used in electronic devices, known for its energy...

The term half bandwidth (HBW) generally refers to the width of a spectral band or frequency range at half of its maximum...

Mode-locking is a technique used in lasers to produce ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of picoseconds,...

A multilayered thin-film device used to modulate transmitted light in integrated photonic circuits.

A computer-generated hologram (CGH) is a holographic image produced using computational methods and algorithms, rather than...

A device that is designed to modulate a beam of light, usually from a laser source, by acting upon the beam directly. The...