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Fast reconfigurable and transient-less holographic beam-shapingrealized by a AOM-SLM device

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2007

M. Mestre
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, UPR 3321, bâtiment 505, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
B. Viaris de Lesegno
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, UPR 3321, bâtiment 505, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
R. Farcy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, UPR 3321, bâtiment 505, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
L. Pruvost*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, UPR 3321, bâtiment 505, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
J. Bourderionnet
Affiliation:
Thales Research and Technology, RD 128, 91767 Palaiseau Cedex, France
A. Delboulbé
Affiliation:
Thales Research and Technology, RD 128, 91767 Palaiseau Cedex, France
B. Loiseaux
Affiliation:
Thales Research and Technology, RD 128, 91767 Palaiseau Cedex, France
D. Dolfi
Affiliation:
Thales Research and Technology, RD 128, 91767 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Abstract

The reconfiguration time of a holographic beam-shaping device using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) has been drastically decreased by five orders of magnitude to reach the microsecond range (~5 µs). The method involves an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) placed in front of the SLM which points the laser beam towards different pre-addressed regions of the liquid crystal plate. Because the addressing signal is not changed, the reconfiguration time is mainly governed by the AOM response time. Moreover, this method allows us to clean up the transient regime by suppressing the bleed effect usually observed in the standard SLM reconfiguration.

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© EDP Sciences, 2007

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