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Achieving high-precision light manipulation is crucial for delivering information through complex media with high fidelity. However, existing spatial light modulation devices face a fundamental tradeoff between speed and accuracy. Digital…

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Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are the most relevant technology for dynamic wavefront manipulation. They find diverse applications ranging from novel displays to optical and quantum communications. Among commercial SLMs for phase…

Digital micromirror devices are a popular type of spatial light modulators for wavefront shaping applications. While they offer several advantages when compared to liquid crystal modulators, such as polarization insensitivity and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas , S. M. Popoff

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging method that is able to super-resolve features beyond the diffraction-limit set by the objective lens of a traditional microscope. This is accomplished by using synthetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Michael Kellman , Emrah Bostan , Michael Chen , Laura Waller

Driven by the demands for speed and field of view in the holographic photostimulation community, we designed, built, and tested a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulator (SLM) with a 1536x1536 square pixel array and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-18 Janelle C Shane , Douglas J McKnight , Adrian Hill , Kevin Taberski , Steve Serati

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are devices for modulating amplitude, phase or polarization of a light beam on demand. Such devices have been playing an indispensable inuence in many areas from our daily entertainments to scientific…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-12 Shengchao Gong , Mengxin Ren , Wei Wu , Wei Cai , Jingjun Xu

We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Holography plays a crucial role in optics applications, but it traditionally requires complex setup and bulky devices, being unfavourable for optics integration. While metasurface-based holograms are ultra-compact and easy to realize,…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-17 Tong Liu , Changhong Dai , Dongyi Wang , Lei Zhou

Ultrathin flat meta-optics have shown great promise for holography in recent years. However, most of the reported meta-optical holograms rely on only phase modulation and neglect the amplitude information. Modulation of both amplitude and…

Optical phase-space functions describe spatial and angular information simultaneously; examples include light fields in ray optics and Wigner functions in wave optics. Measurement of phase-space enables digital refocusing, aberration…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

We report a low-cost method for generating cylindrical vector beams using binary holograms printed on acetate sheets and a modified Michelson interferometer incorporating a cylindrical-lens mode converter. By simply exchanging the hologram…

The substantial memory bandwidth and computational demands of large language models (LLMs) present critical challenges for efficient inference. To tackle this, the literature has explored heterogeneous systems that combine neural processing…

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High-performance programmable silicon photonic circuits are considered to be a critical part of next generation architectures for optical processing, photonic quantum circuits and neural networks. Low-loss optical phase change materials…

Additive manufacturing (AM; 3D Printing), a process which creates a part layer-by-layer, has the potential to improve upon conventional lightweight mirror manufacturing techniques, including subtractive (milling), formative (casting) and…

We describe here a method to generate high-definition arbitrary laser beam shapes and profiles useful to many applications, ranging from optical patterning and lithography to optical trapping of microscopic particles and ultracold atoms.…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-22 Pedro Faleiros Silva , Sérgio Ricardo Muniz

Stereolithographic 3D-printing (SLA) permits facile fabrication of high-precision microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip devices. SLA photopolymers often yield parts with low mechanical compliancy in sharp contrast to elastomers such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-18 Alireza Ahmadianyazdi , Isaac J. Miller , Albert Folch

A frequency-diverse computational imaging system synthesized using three-dimensional (3D) printed frequency-diverse metasurface antennas is demonstrated. The 3D fabrication of the antennas is achieved using a combination of PolyLactic Acid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-10 Okan Yurduseven , Patrick Flowers , Shengrong Ye , Daniel Marks , Jonah Gollub , Thomas Fromenteze , Benjamin Wiley , David Smith

Optical modulators are essential building blocks for high-capacity optical communication and massively parallel computing. Among all types of optical modulators, travelling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulators (TW-MZMs) featuring high speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Shuyi Li , Wei Luo , Zhenyu Li , Junqiu Liu

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an emerging digital manufacturing technology to produce complex and freeform objects through a layer-wise deposition. High deposition rate robotic AM (HDRRAM) processes, such as cold spray additive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Subash Gautam , Alejandro Vargas-Uscategui , Peter King , Hans Lohr , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Ivan Cole , Ehsan Asadi

Complex structure formation and fast focusing of light inside or through turbid media is a challenging task due to refractive index heterogeneity, random light scattering and speckle noise formation. Here, we have proposed a…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-11 Amit Kumar , Sarvesh Thakur , S. K. Biswas