Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators (SLM) – Modulation of ultrashort laser pulses
You can use Jenoptik liquid crystal light modulators to control optical characteristics safely and reliably without mechanical moving parts.
An example of the capabilities of our liquid crystal laboratory is the SLM-S spatial light modulator based on a linear array of individually controllable strips. The modulators work for light in the 430 to 1600 nm wavelength range. They are equipped with a single-mask or a dual-mask array. The dual-mask array makes it possible to control the phase and amplitude simultaneously and independently.
Each of the 320 or 640 strips can be controlled separately with 12-bit resolution. All SLM-series liquid crystal modulators are easy to connect to your computer via USB.
Benefits SLM
- Efficient: Simultaneous modulation of phase and amplitude possible
- Powerful: Use in the VIS and NIR spectral range
- Versatile: Use with single- or dual masks
- Customized: Specific antireflection coatings for your applications
- Variable: For operating in reflective configuration with easy mountable mirror
Fields of Application
- Laser and material processing: Pulse shaping of high-power and ultrashort pulse lasers
- Chemistry: Coherent control
- Analytics: Multidimensional microscopy and spectroscopy
- Laser technology: Pulse compression
- Optics: Simple solutions for modulating light, in particular laser light, in the VIS and NIR range
- Photonics: Variable phase/amplitude masks are used for shaping of fs laser pulses whenever researching and implementing ultrafast processes
Application Example Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator
© Dr. Falk Eilenberger (Institute of Applied Physics (FSU Jena))
Jenoptik SLM in an outclassed performant pulse shaper system for high power Femtosecond Applications
Scientists use Jenoptik-SLM as the center piece of their novel setup for the shaping of femtosecond pulses.
Scientists at the Abbe-Center-of-Photonics of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena have demonstrated a novel setup for the adaptive shaping of femtosecond pulses. The center piece of their setup is the Jenoptik-SLM.
This is the first time that the full potential of the Jenoptik-SLM has been harnessed in an optimized setup of superior performance. They demonstrate highly-efficient self-learning pulse-shaping of 20fs gradients over a time window of picoseconds. For the first time the full area of the SLM can be used, without degrading the beam quality at any wavelength. Using this approach they can shape pulses of multi-gigawatt peak power with a system efficiency of much more than 60%.
SLM-S - List of Publications
Technical Papers & Application Papers relating to Jenoptik's Spatial Light Modulators SLM-S320(d)/640(d)
2022
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 55 (2022) 184003 (12pp)
Three-dimensional photoelectron holography with trichromatic polarization-tailored laser pulses
D. Köhnke , K. Eickhoff , T. Bayer and M. Wollenhaupt
Picosecond pulse-shaping for strong three-dimensinal field-free alignment of generic asymmetric-top molecules
Terry Mullins, Evangolos T. Karamatskos, Joss Wiese, Jolin Onvlee, Arnaud Rouzee, Andrey Yachmenev, Sebastian Trippel, Jochen Küpper
Nature Communications 13, Article number 1431, 17 March 2022
Targeted generation of complex temporal pulse profiles
Mariem Guesmi, Petra Vesela & Karel Zidek
Scientific Reports 12, Article number 3827, 09 March 2022
2021
Orbital angular momentum superposition states in transmission electron microscopy and bichromatic multiphoton ionization
K. Eickhoff, C. Rathje, D. Köhnke, S. Kerbstadt, L. Englert, T. Bayer, s. Schäfer, M. Wollenhaupt
New J. Phys. 22 103045, 21 October 2021
Extremely regular periodic surface structures in a large area efficiently induced on silicon by temporally shaped femtosecond laser
Yuchan Zhang, Qilin Jiang, Kaiqiang Cao, Tianqi Chen, Ke Cheng, Shian Zhang, Donghai Feng, Tianqing Jia, Zhenrong Sun, and Jianrong Qiu
Photonics Research Vol. 9, Issue 5, pp. 839-847 (2021)
Periodic subwavelength ripples on a Si surface induced by a single temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulse: enhanced periodic energy deposition and reduced residual thermal effect
Yuchan Zhang, Ke Cheng, Kaiqiang Cao, Qilin Jiang, Tianqi Chen, Shian Zhang, Donghai Feng, Zhenrong Sun and Tianqing Jia
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 54, number 38, 9 July 2021
Mariem Guesmi and Karel Zidek
Applied Optics, Vol. 60, Issue 25, pp. 7648-7652; 2021-09-01
Experimental requirements for entangled two-photon spectroscopy
Stefan Lerch, Andre Stefanov
J. Chem. Phys. 155, 064201 (2021); 09 August 2021
Coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroelectrochemmistry
Julia Heitmüller, Klaus Eckstein, Rebecca Renner, Matthias Stolte, Tobias Hertel, Frank Würthner, Tobias Brixner
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy; Volume 253, 15 May 2021, 119567
Ultrafast pulse shaping modulates perceived visual brightness in living animals
Geoffrey Gaulier, Quentin Dietschi, Swarnendu Bhattacharyya, Cedric Schmidt, Matteo Montagnese, Adrien Chauvet, Sylvaun Hermelin, Florence Chiodini, Luigi Bonacina, Pedro L. Herrera, Ursula Rothlishberger, Ivan Rodriguez, Jean-Pierre Wolf
Science Advances 2021; 7: eabe1922; 28 April 2021
Coherent 2D electronic spectroscopy with complete characterization of excitation pulses during all scanning steps
Sebastian Pres, Laura Kontschak, Matthias Hensen, and Tobias Brixner
Optics Express, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp.4191-4209; 01.February 2021
Exciton-phonon coupling strength in single-layer MoSe2 at room temperature
Donghai Li, Chiara Trovatello, Stefano Dal Conte, Matthias Nuß, Giancarlo Soavi, Gang Wang, Andrea C. Ferrari, Giullio Cerullo, Tobias Brixner
Nature Communications 12(1), February 2021
2020
Optics Letters; Vol. 45, Issue 2, pp. 300-303 (2020)
Extending time-domain ptychography to generalized phase-only transfer functions
Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg, Erich Rohwer, Michael Brügmann, and Thomas Feurer
Generalized Spectral phase-only time-domain ptychographic phase reconstruction applied in nonlinear microscopy
Dwapanyin, George, Spangenberg, Dirk, Heidt, Alexander, Feurer, Thomas, Bosman, Gurthwin, Neethling, Pieter, Rohwer, Erich
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B - optical physics, 37(11), A285-A292
Dispersion scan frequency resolved optical gating for evaluation of pulse chirp instability
Mariem Guesmi, Petra Vesela, Karel Zidek
Preprint Dez 2020
Picosecond pulse-shaping for strong three-dimensional field-free alignment of generic asymmetric-top molecules
Terry Mullins, Evangelos T. Karamatskos, Joss Wiese, Jolijn Onvlee, Arnauld Rouzee, Andrey Yachmenev, Sebastian Trippel, and Jochen Küpper
arXiv: 2009.08157(physics.atm-clus); 17 Feb 2020
Radiative Transitions and Relaxation Pathways in Plasmon-Based Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Systems
Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Pierre-Adrien Mante, Sema Sazisozen, Lukas Wittenbecher, Iulia Minda, Sinan Balci, Tonu Pullerits, and Donatas Zigmantas
arXiv:2002.05642 [physics.chem-ph]; 17 Feb 2020
2019
Rev Sci Instrumuments; 2019 Nov 1; 90(11): 113103; doi: 10.1063/1.5115322.
Space- and time-resolved UV-to-NIR surface spectroscopy and 2D nanoscopy at 1 MHz repetition rate
Bernhard Huber, Sebastian Pres1, Emanuel Wittmann, Lysanne Dietrich, Julian Lüttig, Daniel Fersch, Enno Krauss, Daniel Friedrich, Johannes Kern, Victor Lisinetskii, Matthias Hensen, Bert Hecht, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Eberhard Riedle, Tobias Brixner
Eric Sheridan, Lu Chen, Jianan Li, Ki-Tae Eom, Hyungwoo Lee, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin, Jeremy Levy
Preprint; DOI: 10.1063/1.5080251;Dec 2019
Generation of 1.5 cycle pulses at 780 nm at oscillator repetition rates with stable carrier-envelope phase
Philip Dienstbier, Francesco Tani, Takuya Higuchi, John Travers, Philip St. J. Russel, and Peter Hommelhoff
Optics Express 24105; Vol. 27; No. 17; 19 Aug 2019
Correction of Fabry-Pérot interference effects in phase and amplitude pulse shapers based on liquid crystal spatial light modulators
Wittenbecher L, Zigmantas D.
Optics Express; Vol. 27; Issue 16; pp. 22970-22982; DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0135-0; 5 Aug 2019
Greater than 50 times compression of 1030nm Yb:KGW laser pulses to single-cycle duration
Chih-Hsuan Lu, Wei-Hsin Wu, Shiang-He Kuo, Jhan-Yu Guo, Ming-Chang Chen, Shang-Da Yang, and A. H. Kung
Optics Express 15638; Vol. 27; No. 11; 27 May 2019
Time-resolved 3D imaging of ultrafast spin-orbit wave packet dynamics
Tim Bayer, Daniela Gräfing, Stefanie Kerbstadt, Dominik Pengel, Kevin Eickhoff, Lars Englert, and Matthias Wollenhaupt
New Journal of Physics; 21 033001; 13 Mar 2019
Over 100-THz bandwidth selective difference frequency generation at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 nanojunctions
Lu Chen, Erin Sutton, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Jianan Li, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin & Jeremy Levy
Light: Science & Applications; DOI: 10.1038/s41377-019-0135-0; 27 Feb 2019
Odd electron wave packets from cycloidal ultrashort laser fields
S. Kerbstadt, K. Eickhoff, T. Bayer, and M. Wollenhaupt
Nature Communications 10; Article number 658 (2019); 8 Feb 2019
2018
Pulse-shaped two-photon excitation of a fluorescent base analogue approaches single-molecule sensitivity
Rachel S. Fisher, David Nobist, Anders F. Fürchtbauer, Mattias Bood, Morten Grotli, L. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Anita C. Jones, and Steven W. Magennis
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics; 30 Oct 2018
Niklas Müller, Lukas Brückner, Marcus Motzkus
APL Photonics 3; 092406; 27 Jul 2018
Genetic algorithm driven spectral shaping of supercontinuum radiation in a photonic crystal fiber
Linor Michaeli, Alon Bahabad
Journal of Optics; 20 055501; 03 Apr 2018
Spectrally narrow features in a supercontinuum generated by shaped pulse trains
Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Herve Rigneault, Dan Oron
Optics Express 5694; Vol. 26, No. 5; 5 Mar 2018
Coherent two-dimensional fluorescence micro-spectroscopy
Sebastina Goetz, Donghai Li, Verena Kolb, Jens Pflaum, Tobias Brixner
Optics Express 3915; Vol. 26, No. 4; 19 Feb 2018
2017
Compact 200kHz HHG source driven by a few-cycle OPCPA
Anne Harth, Chen Guo, Yu-Chen Cheng, Arthur Losquin, Miguel Miranda, Sara Mikaelsson, Christoph M. Heyl, Oliver Prochnow, Jan Ahrens, Uwe Morgner, Anne L’Huillier, Cord L. Arnold
Journal of Optics; 20 014007; 15 Dec 2017
Control of three-dimensional electron vortices from femtosecond multiphoton ionization
D. Pengel, S. Kerbstadt, L. Englert, T. Bayer, and M. Wollenhaupt
PHYSICAL REVIEW A 96; 043426; 31 Oct 2017
Photobleaching in STED nanoscopy and its dependence on the photon flux applied for reversible silencing of the fluorophore
Joanna Oracz, Volker Westphal, Czesław Radzewicz, Steffen J. Sahl, Stefan W. Hell
Scientific Reports; 7; 11354;12 Sep 2017
Pulse shaping of broadband adiabatic SHG from a Ti-sapphire oscillator
ASSAF LEVANON, ASAF DAHAN, ACHIYA NAGLER, ERGA LIFSHITZ, EYAL BAHAR, MICHAEL MREJEN, AND HAIM SUCHOWSKI
Optics Letters Vol. 42, No. 15, August 1 2017
Bipartite Bell inequalities with three ternary-outcome measurements — from theory to experiments
Sacha Schwarz, Bänz Bessire, Andre Stefanov, and Yeong-Cherng Liang
New Journal of Physics ; Vol. 20; 18 035001; DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/3/035001; 27 Apr 2018
Electron Vortices in Femtosecond Multiphoton Ionization
D. Pengel, S. Kerbstadt, D. Johannmeyer, L. Englert, T. Bayer, and M. Wollenhaupt
Physicsl Review Letters 118; 053003; 2 Feb 2017
Ultrashort polarization-tailored bichromatic fields from a CEP-stable white light supercontinuum
Kerbstadt S, Timmer D, Englert L, Bayer T, Wollenhaupt M.
Optics Express; Vol. 25; Issue 11; pp. 12518-12530; 29 May 2017
2016
Ultrashort polarization-tailored bichromatic fields
Stefanie Kerbstadt, Lars Englert, Tim Bayer and Matthias Wollenhaupt
Journal of Modern Optics, Volume 64; 28 Dec 2016
Ultrashort pulses characterization by quantum state tomography
Stefan Lerch and Andre Stefanov
Optics Express; Vol. 24; No. 26; 26 Dec 2016
Temporal resolution beyond the average pulse duration in shaped noisy-pulse transient absorption spectroscopy
Kristina Meyer, Niklas Müller, Zuoye Liu, and Thomas Pfeifer
Applied Optics, Vol. 55, Issue 36, pp. 10318-10322; 20 Dec 2016
Coherent control in room-temperature quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers using shaped pulses
O. Karni, A.K. Mishra, G. Eisenstein, V. Ivanov, and J.P. Reitmeyer
Optica, Vol. 3; No. 6; pp. 570-576; 26 May 2016
Dye-assisted visualization of plasmon modes excited in single gold nanoplates
Keisuke Imaeda, Kohei Imura
Chemical Physics Letters; Vol. 646; pp. 179-184; 16 Feb 2016
2015
Terahertz waveform generation for S21-parameter measurements using a fiber-coupled optical pulse shaper
Jan-Martin Rämer, and Georg von Freymann
Optics Express 30872, Vol. 23, No. 24; 30 Nov 2015; DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.030872
Shaped and Feedback-Controlled Excitation of Single Molecules in the Weak-Field Limit
Alexander Weigel, Aleksandar Sebesta, and Philipp Kukura
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6 (20), pp. 4032–4037, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01748; 17 Sept 2015
Realizing up-conversion fluorescence tuning in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals by femtosecond pulse shaping method
Shian Zhang, Yunhua Yao, Xu Shuwu, Pei Liu, Jingxin Ding,Tianqing Jia, Jianrong Qiu & Zhenrong Sun
www.nature.com / Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 13337; 20 Aug 2015; DOI: 10.1038/srep13337
Hydrogen Migration in Intense Laser Fields: Analysis and Control in Concert
N. Reusch, N. Schirmel, and K.M. Weitzel
Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XI, 2015, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-06730-8
Single-beam spectrally controlled two-dimensional Raman spectroscopy
H. Frostig, T. Bayer, N. Dudovich, Y.C. Eldar, and Y. Silberberg
Nature Photonics 9, 339-343, 2015
Controlling ablation mechanisms in sapphire by tuning the temporal shape of femtosecond laser pulses
J. Hernandez-Rueda, J. Siegel, M. Galvan-Sosa, A. Ruiz de la Cruz, M. Garcia-Lechuga, and J. Solis
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2015, pp. 150-156
2014
Shaping and spatiotemporal characterization of sub-10-fs pulses focused by a high-NA objective
Monika Pawlowska, Sebastian Goetz, Christian Dreher, Matthias Wurdack, Enno Krauss, Gary Razinskas, Peter Geisler, Bert Hecht and Tobias Brixner
Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 25, pp. 31496-31510 (2014)
Single and two-photon fluorescence control of Er3+ ions by phase-shaped femtosecond laser pulse
Shian Zhang, Shuwu Xu, Jingxin Ding, Chenhui Lu, Tianqing Jia, Jianrong Qiu, and Zhenrong Sun
Applied Physics Letters 104, 014101 (2014)
Optimized terahertz generation via optical rectification in ZnTe crystals
S. Vidal, J. Degert, M. Tondusson, E. Freysz, and J. Oberlé
Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol. 31, 149-153, No. 1 (2014)
Optimization of ultra-fast interactions using laser pulse temporal shaping controlled by a deterministic algorithm
M. Galvan-Sosa, J. Portilla, J. Hernandez-Rueda, J. Siegel, L. Moreno, A. Ruiz de la Cruz, and J. Solis
Applied Physics A, 2014, volume 114, Issue 2, pp. 477-484
Multiple One-Dimensional Search (MODS) algorithm for fast optimization of laser–matter interaction by phase-only fs-laser pulse shaping
M. Galvan-Sosa, J. Portilla, J. Hernandez-Rueda, J. Siegel, L. Moreno, and J. Solis
Applied Physics B, Laser and Optics, 2014, Vol. 116, Issue 3, pp 747-553
2013
Coherent phase control of resonance-mediated two-photon absorption in rare-earth ions
Shian Zhang, Chenhui Lu, Tianqing Jia, Jianrong Qiu, and Zhenrong Sun
Applied Physics Letters 103, 194104 (2013)
Long-term stabilization of high power optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers
R. Riedel, M. Schulz, M. J. Prandolini, A. Hage, H. Höppner, T. Gottschall, J. Limpert, M. Drescher, F. Tavella
Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 23, pp. 28987-28999 (2013)
Surface structuring of fused silica with asymmetric femtosecond laser pulse bursts
J. Hernandez-Rueda, J. Siegel, M. Galvan-Sosa, A. Ruiz de la Cruz, J. Solis,
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 30, 1352-1356 (2013)
Ad-hoc design of temporally shaped fs laser pulses based on plasma dynamics for deep ablation in fused silica
J. Hernandez-Rueda; J. Siegel, D. Puerto; M. Galvan-Sosa, W. Gawelda, J. Solis
Applied Physics A, Volume 112, Issue 1, pp.185-189 (2013)
Spectral flattening of supercontinua with a spatial light modulator
R. A. Probst, T. Steinmetz, T. Wilken, G. K. L. Wong, H. Hundertmark, S. P. Stark, P. St. J. Russell, T. W. Hänsch, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem
Proc. SPIE 8864, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VI, 88641Z (September 26, 2013); doi:10.1117/12.2036601
Shaping frequency entangled qudits
C. Bernhard, B. Bessire, T. Feurer, A. Stefanov
arXiv:1303.6202 (quant-ph), 27 Mar 2013
Formation of fragment ions (H+, H 3+, CH 3+) from ethane in intense femtosecond laser fields–from understanding to control
N. Schirmel, N. Reusch, P. Horsch, and K.M. Weitzel
Faraday discussions, 2013; 163: 461-74
2012
75 MW few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from a collinear apodized APPLN-based OPCPA
C. Heese, C. R. Phillips, B. W. Mayer, L. Gallmann, M. M. Fejer, and U. Keller
Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 24, pp. 26888-26894 (2012)
Maximizing the amplitude of coherent phonons with shaped laser pulses
Toru Shimada, Christian Frischkorn, Martin Wolf, and Tobias Kampfrath
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 113103 (2012)
Real-time observation of transient electron density in water irradiated with tailored femtosecond laser pulses
C. Sarpe, J. Köhler, T. Winkler, M. Wollenhaupt and T. Baumert
New Journal of Physics 14 075021 (2012)
White-light generation using spatially-structured beams of femtosecond radiation
N. Kaya, J. Strohaber, A. A. Kolomenskii, G. Kaya, H. Schroeder, and H. A. Schuessler
Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 12, pp. 13337-13346 (2012)
Programmably structured plasma waveguide for development of table-top photon and particle sources
T.-S. Hung, Y.-C. Ho, Y.-L. Chang, S.-J. Wong, H.-H. Chu, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Physics of Plasmas 19, 063109 (2012)
2011
Coherent Control of the Ultrafast Dissociative Ionization Dynamics of Bromochloroalkanes
J. Plenge, A. Wirsing, I. Wagner-Drebenstedt, I. Halfpap, B. Kieling, B. Wassermann, E. Rühl
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Vol. 13, 21 May 2011, Pages 8705-8714
Effect of Linear Chirp on Strong Field Photodissociation of H2+
V. S. Prabhudesai, A. Natan, B. D. Bruner, Y. Silberberg, U. Lev, O. Heber, D. Strasser, D. Schwalm, D. Zajfman, I. Ben-Itzhak
Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, 2890-2894 (2011)
High-power widely tunable sub-20fs Gaussian laser pulses for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy
Bernd Metzger, Andy Steinmann, and Harald Giessen
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 24, pp. 24354-24360 (2011)
Single-pulse stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy
Hadas Frostig, Ori Katz, Adi Natan, and Yaron Silberberg
Optics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 1248-1250 (2011)
Zeptosecond precision pulse shaping
Jens Köhler, Matthias Wollenhaupt, Tim Bayer, Cristian Sarpe, and Thomas Baumert
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 12, pp. 11638-11653 (2011)
Nonlocal compensation of pure phase objects with entangled photons
Simone Cialdi, Davide Brivio, Enrico Tesio, Matteo G. A. Paris
Physical Review 2011, A 84, 043817
Combined OCT and CARS using a single ultrashort pulse Ti: Sapphire laser
C. Hoffmann, B. Hofer, A. Unterhuber, B. Poavzay, U. Morgner, and W. Drexler
SPIE Proceedings Vol. 78920B (10 February 2011) Multimodal Biomedical Imaging VI
Single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy using both pump and soliton Stokes pulses from a photonic crystal fiber
K. Tada, N. Karasawa
Applied Physics Express 4, 092701, 2011
2010
Generation of intense ultrashort midinfrared pulses by laser-plasma interaction in the bubble regime
C.-H. Pai, Y.-Y. Chang, L.-C. Ha, Z.-H. Xie, M.-W. Lin, J.-M. Lin, Y.-M. Chen, G. Tsaur, H.-H. Chu, S.-H. Chen, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Physical Review A 82, 063804 (2010)
Coherent Control for Molecular Ultrafast Spectroscopy
T. Buckup, J. Hauer, M. Motzkus
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NATO-Science for Peace and Security Series B - Physics and Biophysics, 37-55 (2010)
Strong-field spatiotemporal ultrafast coherent control in three-level atoms
Barry D. Brunner, Haim Suchowski, Nikolay V. Vitanov, Yaron Silberberg
Physical Review 2010, A 81, 063410
Mid-infrared polarization pulse shaping by parametric transfer
Marco Thomas Seidel, Suxia Yan, and Howe-Siang Tan
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 4, February 15, 2010
Multi-terawatt laser system generating 12-fs pulses at 100 Hz repetition rate
Y. Nabekawa, A. Amani Eilanlou, Y. Furukawa, K.L. Ishikawa, H. Takahashi, K. Midorikawa
Appl Phys B (2010) Vol. 101, pp. 523–534
Vibrational cooling of cold molecules with optimised shaped pulses
D. Sofikitis, A. Fioretti, S. Weber, R. Horchani, M. Pichler, X. Li, M. Allegrini, B. Chatel, D. Comparat, and P. Pillet
Molecular Physics, Vol. 108, 2010 Issue 6, page 795-810
2009
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy using soliton pulse trains from a photonic crystal fiber
K. Tada, N. Karasawa
Optical Communications, Volume 9, Issue 19, 1 October 2009, Pages 3948-3952
Multi-terawatt chirped pulse optical parametric amplifier with a time-shear power amplification stage
Pawel Wnuk, Yuriy Stepaneko, Czeslaw Radzewicz
Optics Express, 2009, Vol. 17, Issue 17, pp. 1526415273
Molecular vibrational cooling by optical pumping with shaped femtosecond pulses
D. Sofikitis, S. Weber, A. Fioretti., R. Horchani, M. Allegrini, B. Chatel, D. Comparat and P. Pillet
New Journal of Physics 11
Photoelectron angular distributions from strong-field coherent electronic excitation
M. Wollenhaupt, M. Krug, J. Köhler, T. Bayer, C. Sarpe-Tudoran, T. Baumert
Appl Phys B (2009), Vol. 95, pp. 245–259
Cold cesium molecules: from formation to cooling
A. Fioretti, D. Sofikitis, R. Horchani, X. Li, M. Pichler, S. Weber, M. Allegrini, B. Chatel, D. Comparat, and P. Pillet
Journal of Modern Optics, 2009, Vol. 56, Issue 18-19, page 2089-2099
2008
Amplitude and phase modulation of time-energy entangled two-photon states
Zäh F, Halder M, Feurer T.
Optics Express, 2008 Oct 13, Vol. 16, Issue 21, pp 16452-16458
Few-cycle femtosecond field synthesizer
Stefan Rausch, Thomas Binhammer, Anne Harth; Franz X. Kärtner, Uwe Morgner
Optics Express, 2008, Vol. 16, Issue 22, pp. 17410-17419
Spatio-temporal coherent control of atomic systems: weak to strong field transition and breaking of symmetry in 2D maps
H. Suchowski, A. Natan, B. D. Bruner and Y. Silberberg
Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41
Direct amplification of a terrawatt sub-10-fs pulse using a CPA system of Ti:sapphire laser
A. Amani Eilanlou, Y. Nabekawa, K. L. Ishikawa, H. Takahashi, and K. Midorikawa
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 17, pp. 13431-13438
Standoff detection of trace amounts of solids by nonlinear Raman spectroscopy using shaped femtosecond pulses
O. Katz , A. Natan, Y. Silberberg, and S. Rosenwaks
Applied Physics Letters 92, 171116 _2008
Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy Using
Pulse-Shaper-Controlled Variable-Wavelength Soliton Pulses from a Photonic Crystal Fiber
Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 47 (2008) pp. 8825-8828
2007
Enhancement of Relativistic Harmonic Generation by an Optically Preformed Periodic Plasma Waveguide
C.-C. Kuo, C.-H. Pai, M.-W. Lin, K.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Physical Revue Letters 98, 033901 (2007)
Programmable common-path vector field synthesizer for femtosecond pulses
M. Ninck, A. Galler, T. Feurer, and T. Brixner
Optics Letters, 2007, Vol. 32, Issue 23, pp. 3379-3381
Coherent control and dark pulses in second harmonic generation
Pawel Wnuk *, Czeslaw Radzewicz
Optics Communications 272 (2007) 496–502
Distinction of ortho- and para-Xylene by Femtosecond-Laser Mass Spectrometry
Gunter Urbasch, Hans Georg Breunig and Karl-Michael Weitzel
ChemPhysChem 2007, 8, 2185 – 2188
2006
Fabrication of plasma transient density structures and its application to high-field plasma devices
Szu-yuan Chen, Jyhpyng Wang, and Jiunn-Yuan Lin
AIP Conf. Proc. 877 (2006) pp. 117-128
A source of 2 terawatt, 2.7 cycle laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
Witte, S.; Zinkstok, R. Th.; Wolf, A. L.; Hogervorst, W.; Ubachs, W.; Eikema, K. S. E.
Optics Express, 2006, Vol. 14, Issue 18, pp.8168-8177
Programmable fabrication of spatial structures in a gas jet by laser machining with a spatial light modulator
Lin, M.-W.; Chen, Y.-M.; Pai, C.-H.; Kuo, C.-C.; Lee, K.-H.; Wang, J.; Chen, S.-Y.; Lin, J.-Y.
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 13, Issue 11, pp. 110701-110704
Generation of optical-field controlled high-intensity laser pulses
Masayuki Kakehata, Hideyuki Takada, Yohei Kobayashi, Kenji Torizuka
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 182 (2006) pp. 220-224
2005
High-power parametric amplification of 11.8-fs laser pulses with carrier-envelope phase control
R. Th. Zinkstok, S. Witte, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. E. Eikema
Optics Letters, 2005, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 78-80
Generation of few-cycle terawatt light pulses using optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
S. Witte, R. Th. Zinkstok, W. Hogervorst, K.S.E. Eikema
Optics Express, 2005, Vol. 13, No. 13 / pp. 4903-4908
Adaptive shaping of high-power broadband femtosecond laser pulses
Tobias Witting, Grigorios Tsilimis, Jörg Kutzner, and Helmut Zacharias
Springer Proceedings in Physics, Volume 102, 2005, pp. 273-282
Chirped-pulse amplification system providing electric-field-controlled optical pulses
M. Kakehata, H. Takada, Y. Kobayashi, K. Torizuka, K. Nishijima, H. Takamiya, T. Homma, and H. Takahashi
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2005, ISBN: 1-55752-770-9
2004
Control of the production of highly charged ions in femtosecond-laser cluster fragmentation
S. Zamith, T. Martchenko, Y. Ni, S. A. Aseyev, H. G. Muller, and M. J. J. Vrakking
Physical Review A 70, 011201(R) (2004)
A laser pulse shaper for the low-emittance radiofrequency SPARC electron gun
S. Cialdi*, I. Boscolo
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 526 (2004) 239–248
New phase and amplitude high resolution pulse shaper
Antoine Monmayrant and Béatrice Chatel
Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 75, No 8, August 2004
2003
Generation of 3.8-fs pulses from adaptive compression of a cascaded hollow fiber supercontinuum
B. Schenkel, J. Biegert, and U. Keller, C. Vozzi, M. Nisoli, G. Sansone, S. Stagira, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto
Optics Letters, October 15, 2003 / Vol. 28, No. 20
2001
A new high-resolution femtosecond pulse shaper
G. Stobrawa, M. Hacker, T. Feurer, D. Zeidler, M. Motzkus, Frank Reichel (Jenoptik)
Appl. Phys. B 72, 627
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What is a liquid crystal spatial light modulator?
How does liquid crystal light modulator SLM-Sxxx work?
What is the liquid crystal modulator SLM-Sxxx used for?
The liquid crystal light modulators SLM-Sxxx are used to control phase, amplitude, or polarization of a light beam with high precision and spatially. Both laser pulses and CW light can be modified.
Some SLM applications:
- SLMs are used in many areas of photonics for fs pulse shaping and characterization. In a 4f setup for shaping ultrashort pulses, for example, the pulse is spectrally split by the first grating of the setup and mapped onto different pixels of the SLM. Here, the light components undergo the desired modulation, after which the pulse is reassembled and has a different shape. Due to the complexity of pulse shaping, self-learning algorithms are often used here.
- SLMs enable the creation of complex holographic images by controlling the light phase, which supports 3D imaging, holographic displays, and security applications.
- In modern multimodal microscope technologies, SLMs are used to realize different operating modes. By simply switching the phase pattern imaged on the SLM, almost any spatio-temporal light pattern can be generated without the need to change hardware components.
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