Advances in modal liquid crystals

Andrew K. Kirby; Gordon D. Love; Alexander F. Naumov; Svetlana Kotova

doi:10.1117/12.511950

11 December 2003 Advances in modal liquid crystals

Andrew K. Kirby, Gordon D. Love, Alexander F. Naumov, Svetlana Kotova

Proceedings Volume 5162, Advanced Wavefront Control: Methods, Devices, and Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.511950
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper we review progress towards making a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) which has all the desired specifications required for (astronomical) adaptive optics (AO). Our work at Durham is currently focused on developing modal LCs, as they have some key advantages over conventional LC-SLMs. A modal LC-SLM is a device whose optical properties more closely resemble a deformable facesheet mirror than a conventional LC-SLM which are pixelated. Therefore they have a Gaussian, rather than a piston-only, influence function.

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Andrew K. Kirby, Gordon D. Love, Alexander F. Naumov, and Svetlana Kotova "Advances in modal liquid crystals", Proc. SPIE 5162, Advanced Wavefront Control: Methods, Devices, and Applications, (11 December 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.511950

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