Optimal region of support for arbitrary filter spatial light modulators

Adam Milstein; Stanley E. Monroe Jr.; Richard D. Juday

doi:10.1117/1.1356707

1 May 2001 Optimal region of support for arbitrary filter spatial light modulators

Adam Milstein, Stanley E. Monroe Jr., Richard D. Juday

Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 5, (May 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1356707

When only certain filter pixels in a spatial light modulator (SLM) are allowed to transmit light, those "on" pixels constitute the region of support (ROS) for the filter. At the frequencies where noise power overwhelms signal power, or where the available values of the filter are not well aligned with the ideal spectral filter, the filter can actually work against the intent of the metric, and zero transmittance is preferable to what the SLM can do. In contrast to prior theories, which applied to only unit-magnitude filters, we present algorithms for optimizing and studying ROS for an arbitrary SLM. We also present laboratory demonstrations of improvement in signal-to-noise ratio when a blocking mask is inserted into an optical correlator. A mask has detailed functional dependence on the signal, the noise power spectral density, the selected metric, and the realizable filter values. Broadly useful rules are given for designing a mask. Conjecture is offered that it could be beneficial to build a permanent ROS into SLMs.

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Adam Milstein, Stanley E. Monroe Jr., and Richard D. Juday "Optimal region of support for arbitrary filter spatial light modulators," Optical Engineering 40(5), (1 May 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1356707

Published: 1 May 2001

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