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Shaping the Amplitude and Phase of Laser Beams by Using a Phase-only Spatial Light Modulator
Published on: January 28, 2019
Abstract:
The phase-only filter (POF) and binary phase-only filter (BPOF) have been shown to have high optical efficiency, good target discrimination, and virtually no sidelobes. We present a simple method of amplitude encoding the signal phase information. These new filters have most of the same advantages of a POF or BPOF so that amplitude modulating spatial light modulators or photographic film can be used.
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