Applications of liquid crystal spatial light modulators in optical communications

Author

Ahderom, S. ; Raisi, M. ; Lo, K. ; Alameh, K.E. ; Mavaddat, R.

Author_Institution

Centre for Very High Speed Microelectron. Syst., Edith Cowan Univ., Joondalup, WA, Australia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

239

Lastpage

242

Abstract

Advances in liquid crystal (LC) materials and VLSI technology have enabled the development of multi-phase spatial light modulators (SLM) that can perform high-resolution, dynamic optical beam positioning as well as temporal and spatial beam shaping in the 1550 nm optical communication window. These attractive features can effectively be used to achieve optical switching, optical spectral equalization, tunable optical filtering and many other functions that are important for future reconfigurable optical telecommunication networks. We review potential optical telecommunication applications based on LC-SLMs.

Keywords

VLSI; beam steering; equalisers; liquid crystal devices; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical switches; spatial light modulators; 1550 nm; LC-SLM; VLSI technology; dynamic optical beam positioning; high-resolution optical beam positioning; liquid crystal materials; liquid crystal spatial light modulators; multi-phase spatial light modulators; optical communications; optical spectral equalization; optical switching; optical telecommunication networks; spatial beam shaping; temporal beam shaping; tunable optical filtering; Crystalline materials; Liquid crystals; Optical beams; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical materials; Optical modulation; Telecommunication switching; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications 5th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7600-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSNMC.2002.1032583

Filename

1032583