A High Performance Photo-Emitter Membrane Spatial Light Modulator

A D Fisher; L C. Ling; John N. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.941406

13 August 1984 A High Performance Photo-Emitter Membrane Spatial Light Modulator

A D Fisher, L C. Ling, John N. Lee

Proceedings Volume 0465, Spatial Light Modulators and Applications I; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941406
Event: 1984 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1984, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

A potentially high-performance, optically-addressed, spatial light modulator, called the photo-emitter membrane light modulator (PEMLM) is being developed. The operational theory of the PEMLM is presented, accompanied by a discussion of its ultimate performance objectives and limitations. The PEMLM offers the potential for framing rates in excess of 1kHz, 50 1p/mm resolution, storage times of days, extreme sensitivities of less than 1 nJ/cm², and an intrinsic ability to perform such image processing operations as thresholding and hardclippiny, contrast reversal and enhancement, image addition and subtraction, and optical binary logic. A developmental laboratory prototype has been constructed.

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A D Fisher, L C. Ling, and John N. Lee "A High Performance Photo-Emitter Membrane Spatial Light Modulator", Proc. SPIE 0465, Spatial Light Modulators and Applications I, (13 August 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941406

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