Abstract

Spatial light modulator (SLM) is a key component of modern video projectors, beam shaping devices, laser beam combiners and optical information processors. Challenging tasks in SLM are optoelectronic integration, all-optical operation and phase modulation with low absorption. A possible improvement along these lines could be the use of new nano-materials with large and controllable optical nonlinearities, e.g. the quantum dots (QDs).

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