Abstract

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are fundamental component in most optoelectronic computing architectures. They function as two-dimensional input-output data displays, spatial filters, incoherent-coherent light converters, smart detector/emitters, and as neuron planes and connection weights in neural networks. In this paper, we discuss recent advances in the electrical and optical addressing of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) SLMs, and their application to optical neural networks, optical correlators and early vision processing.

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