DLP technolgy: applications in optical networking

Lars A. Yoder; Walter M. Duncan; Elisabeth Marley Koontz; John So; Terry A. Bartlett; Benjamin L. Lee; Bryce D. Sawyers; Donald Powell; Paul Rancuret

doi:10.1117/12.447760

8 November 2001 DLP technolgy: applications in optical networking

Lars A. Yoder, Walter M. Duncan, Elisabeth Marley Koontz, John So, Terry A. Bartlett, Benjamin L. Lee, Bryce D. Sawyers, Donald Powell, Paul Rancuret

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Proceedings Volume 4457, Spatial Light Modulators: Technology and Applications; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447760
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

For the past five years, Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology from Texas Instruments has made significant inroads in the projection display market. With products encompassing the world's smallest data & video projectors, HDTVs, and digital cinema, DLP is an extremely flexible technology. At the heart of these display solutions is Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), a semiconductor-based light switch array of thousands of individually addressable, tiltable, mirror-pixels. With success of the DMD as a spatial light modulator in the visible regime, the use of DLP technology under the constraints of coherent, infrared light for optical networking applications is being explored. As a coherent light modulator, the DMD device can be used in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) optical networks to dynamically manipulate and shape optical signals. This paper will present the fundamentals of using DLP with coherent wavefronts, discuss inherent advantages of the technology, and present several applications for DLP in dynamic optical networks.

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Lars A. Yoder, Walter M. Duncan, Elisabeth Marley Koontz, John So, Terry A. Bartlett, Benjamin L. Lee, Bryce D. Sawyers, Donald Powell, and Paul Rancuret "DLP technolgy: applications in optical networking", Proc. SPIE 4457, Spatial Light Modulators: Technology and Applications, (8 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447760

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