WO2003021341A3 - Optical processing - Google Patents

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WO2003021341A3
WO2003021341A3 PCT/GB2002/004011 GB0204011W WO03021341A3 WO 2003021341 A3 WO2003021341 A3 WO 2003021341A3 GB 0204011 W GB0204011 W GB 0204011W WO 03021341 A3 WO03021341 A3 WO 03021341A3
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Melanie Holmes
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Melanie Holmes
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Priority to EP02755305.6A priority Critical patent/EP1466218B1/en
Priority to AU2002321598A priority patent/AU2002321598A1/en
Priority to US10/487,810 priority patent/US7145710B2/en
Application filed by Swan Thomas & Co Ltd, Melanie Holmes filed Critical Swan Thomas & Co Ltd
Publication of WO2003021341A2 publication Critical patent/WO2003021341A2/en
Publication of WO2003021341A3 publication Critical patent/WO2003021341A3/en
Priority to US11/515,389 priority patent/US7612930B2/en
Priority to US11/514,725 priority patent/US7664395B2/en
Priority to US11/978,258 priority patent/US8089683B2/en
Priority to US12/710,913 priority patent/US8335033B2/en
Priority to US13/677,926 priority patent/US8937759B2/en
Priority to US14/568,750 priority patent/US9529325B2/en
Priority to US15/358,724 priority patent/US10180616B2/en
Priority to US16/239,286 priority patent/US10642126B2/en
Priority to US16/388,636 priority patent/US11073739B2/en

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Abstract

To operate an optical device comprising an SLM (20, 21) with a two-dimensional array of controllable phase-modulating elements, groups of individual phase-modulating elements (13, 14) are delineated, and control data selected from a store (124) for each delineated group of phase-modulating elements. The selected control data are used to generate (122) holograms at each group and one or both of the delineation of the groups and the selection of control data is/are varied. In this way upon illumination of the groups by light beams (1, 2), light beams emergent from the groups are controllable independently of each other, wherein said control includes control of direction (e.g. a routing device), control of power, focussing, aberrarion compensation, sampling, beam shaping and wavelength filtering (e.g. a wavelenght add drop multiplexer).
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