How to Shape Light with Spatial Light Modulators

Author(s): Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán; Andrew Forbes

Published: 2017

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2281295

PDF ISBN: 9781510613010 | Print ISBN: 9781510613027

DESCRIPTION

Structuring light is a ubiquitous laboratory tool, and computer-controlled devices such as spatial light modulators (SLMs) can reshape an input beam into almost any desired output beam. This Spotlight covers the basic principles of these devices as well as some of the most advanced techniques in beam shaping. Many examples have been included to make this guide more comprehensive and help those shaping beams with a SLM for the first time. The provided examples are based in MATLAB (including a dozen downloadable code files), but they can be easily adapted to other programing languages. Readers need only an undergraduate level of mathematics and a basic knowledge of programming.