System for demonstrating arbitrary multi-spot beam steering from spatial light modulators

doi:10.1364/OPEX.12.000260

Optics Express

Editor: Michael Duncan
Vol. 12, Iss. 2 — Jan. 26, 2004
pp: 260–268

System for demonstrating arbitrary multi-spot beam steering from spatial light modulators

Xiaodong Xun, Xiaoguang Chang, and Robert Cohn »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 260-268 (2004)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.12.000260

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A graphical user interface is used to program sequences of analog phase patterns onto a 512×512 pixel, electrically-addressed spatial light modulator (SLM). Hand sketches made with a digital pen are used to prescribe the footprints, velocities and trajectories of multiple, independently-controlled diffracted spots. The interface is intended to demonstrate to potential end-users, who are not knowledgeable about diffractive optical design, to what degree SLM’s may be considered to produce arbitrary multi-spot beam steering. Using the interface, scanning sequences are created, programmed, run through, and diffracted from a SLM that simultaneously scans multiple patterns on distinct trajectories.

OCIS Codes
(050.1970) Diffraction and gratings : Diffractive optics
(070.2580) Fourier optics and signal processing : Paraxial wave optics
(120.5800) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Scanners
(140.7010) Lasers and laser optics : Laser trapping
(230.6120) Optical devices : Spatial light modulators

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Original Manuscript: December 12, 2003
Revised Manuscript: January 6, 2004
Published: January 26, 2004

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Xiaodong Xun, Xiaoguang Chang, and Robert Cohn, "System for demonstrating arbitrary multi-spot beam steering from spatial light modulators," Opt. Express 12, 260-268 (2004)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-12-2-260

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J. Stockley, S. Serati, X. Xun, and R. W. Cohn, "Liquid crystal spatial light modulator for multispot beam steering," in Free Space Laser Communication and Active Laser Illumination III, D. G. Voelz and J. C. Ricklin, eds., Proc. SPIE 5160, (in press, 2003).
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J. E. Curtis and D. G. Grier, �??Structure of optical vortices,�?? Phys. Rev.Lett. 90, 133901 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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[1] L. Ge, M. Duelli, and R. W. Cohn, �??Enumeration of illumination and scanning modes from real-time spatial light modulators,�?? Opt. Express 7, 403-416 (2000). <a href= "http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-7-12-403">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-7-12-403</a> [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[2] K. Visscher, S. P. Gross, and S. M. Block, �??Construction of multiple-beam optical traps with nanometer-level position sensing,�?? IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Electr. 2, 1066-1076 (1996). [CrossRef]

[3] C. Mio, T. Gong, A. Terray, and D. W. M. Marr, �??�??Design of a scanning laser optical trap for multiparticle manipulation,�??�?? Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 2196�??2200 (2000). [CrossRef]

[4] M. Reicherter, T. Haist, E. U. Wagemann, and H. J. Tiziani, �??�??Optical particle trapping with computer-generated holograms written on a liquid-crystal display,�??�?? Opt. Lett. 24, 608�??610 (1999). [CrossRef]

[5] J.E. Curtis, B.A. Koss and D.G. Grier, �??Dynamic holographic optical tweezers, Opt. Commun. 207, 169-175 (2002). [CrossRef]

[6] D. McGloin, G. C. Spalding, H. Melville, W. Sibbett, and K. Dholakia, "Applications of spatial light modulators in atom optics," Opt. Express 11, 158-166 (2003), <a href= "http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-2-158">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-2-158</a>. [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[7] P. J. Rodrigo, R. L. Eriksen, V. R. Daria, and J. Gluckstad, "Interactive light-driven and parallel manipulation of inhomogeneous particles," Opt. Express 10, 1550-1556 (2002), <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-26-1550">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-26-1550</a> [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] Transition of Optical Processors into Systems 1995, D. Casasent, ed., Proc. SPIE 2489, (1995).

[9] Logitech® io�?� digital pen and notebook, <a href= "http://www.logitech.com/">http://www.logitech.com/</a>

[10] R. W. Cohn and M. Liang, "Approximating fully complex spatial modulation with pseudo-random phaseonly modulation," Appl. Opt. 33, 4406-4415, (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] R. W. Cohn and L. G. Hassebrook, �??Representations of fully complex functions on real-time spatial light modulators,�?? in Optical Information Processing, F. T. S. Yu and S. Jutamulia, eds., (Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998), pp. 396-432.

[12] J. Stockley, S. Serati, X. Xun, and R. W. Cohn, "Liquid crystal spatial light modulator for multispot beam steering," in Free Space Laser Communication and Active Laser Illumination III, D. G. Voelz and J. C. Ricklin, eds., Proc. SPIE 5160, (in press, 2003).

[13] Boulder Nonlinear System, Inc., <a href= "http://www.bnonlinear.com/pages/512techspecs.html">http://www.bnonlinear.com/pages/512techspecs.html</a>

[14] G. Chaikin, �??An algorithm for high speed curve generation,�?? Computer Graphics and Image Processing 3, 346-349 (1974). [CrossRef]

[15] J. Arlt, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, M. J. Padgett, �??The production of multiringed Laguerre-Gaussian modes by computer-generated holograms,�?? J Mod. Opt. 45, 1231-1237 (1998) [CrossRef]

[16] O. Bryngdahl, �??Axicon,�?? IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin 13, 81 (1970)

[17] R. W. Gerchberg and W. O. Saxton, �??A practical algorithm for the determination of phase from image and diffraction plane pictures,�?? Optik 35, 237-246 (1972).

[18] M. Duelli, M. Reece, and R. W. Cohn, �??Modified minimum-distance criterion for blended random and nonrandom encoding,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 2425-2438 (1999). [CrossRef]

[19] J. E. Curtis and D. G. Grier, �??Structure of optical vortices,�?? Phys. Rev.Lett. 90, 133901 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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