The digital micromirror device (DMD) was conceived at Texas Instruments in 1987, following a decade of work on analog deformable-mirror and canti-lever-mirror devices. This particular optical MEMS or MOEMS device has been applied most famously to digital cinema projection systems, enterprise projectors, and highly portable personal displays, all of which were enabled by TI DLP® technology. The DMD has been commercially available since 1996, leading to hundreds of products and innovative research projects spanning consumer, industrial, medical, and automotive markets.
By bringing together scientists, technologists, and developers, the goal of this special section is to highlight new and interesting means of applying DLP technology to solve problems across various markets.
Technical areas of particular interest include but are not limited to the use of DLP technology for:
Programmable Patterning and Advanced Imaging Solutions
- 3D metrology, machine vision, and factory automation
- compressive sensing
- computational imaging
- hyperspectral imaging
- security and surveillance
- spectroscopy (including mobile spectroscopy)
- volumetric scanning.
Display Solutions
- 3D displays (light-field, autostereoscopic, volumetric, multi-views, and holographic)
- augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality
- automotive interior (head-up displays, interior displays, interior lighting)
- automotive exterior (headlight illumination, exterior lighting)
- intelligent lighting or displays.
Manufacturing Solutions
- additive manufacturing / 3D printing
- coding and marking
- direct imaging lithography
- industrial printers and exposure systems.
Medical Devices
- biochemical visualization
- microscopy
- ophthalmology
- endoscopic imaging
- 3D bioprinting.
Light Manipulation
- beam steering / wave-front shaping
- optical micromanipulation
- spectrally tunable light sources
- phase light modulator applications.
NIR Applications
Optical Telecommunications
UV Applications
All papers will undergo the standard peer-review process for the
Journal of Optical Microsystems. Manuscripts should be submitted to SPIE according to the
journal guidelines. A cover letter indicating that the submission is intended for this special section should be included. Note that papers are published as soon as they are accepted for publication and final proofs are approved.
. All papers will be peer‐reviewed in accordance with the journal's established policies and procedures. 
