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spatial light modulator

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spatial light modulator

(1) A matrix of movable mirrors used to reflect a digital image to the viewer. See DLP.

(2) A matrix of shutters that represents a page of binary data. It is used to modulate a laser beam for holographic storage. See holographic storage.

The Spatial Light Modulator
The checkerboard-like device modulates the laser beam to create the holographic page when combined with the reference laser.



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The new phase-changing material might also find a home in spatial light modulators and coatings for optical fibers now used in computing, telephone, and television systems, Schuster says.
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dramatically improves display-based products by providing high switching speed FLCOS as microdisplays that deliver brilliant, real-life, digital images enabling next-generation consumer electronics and storage products by providing FLCOS as a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM).
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A device called a spatial light modulator converts data into an optical signal for storage, they add.
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