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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
30
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-27
pubmed:abstractText
We report a new self-interferometric technique for visualizing phase patterns that are encoded onto a phase-only liquid-crystal display (LCD). In our approach, the LCD generates both the desired object beam as well as the reference beam. Normally the phase patterns are encoded with a phase depth of 2pi radians, and all of the incident energy is diffracted into the first-order beam. However, by reducing this phase depth, we can generate an additional zero-order diffracted beam, which acts as the reference beam. We work at distances such that these two patterns spatially interfere, producing an interference pattern that displays the encoded phase pattern. This approach was used recently to display the phase vortices of helical Ince-Gaussian beams. Here we show additional experimental results and analyze the process.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0003-6935
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7791-4
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Self-interferometric technique for visualization of phase patterns encoded onto a liquid-crystal display.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-1233, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article