Phi Optics has been a customer of Meadowlark Optics for [more than] seven years and works with Meadowlark products because they provide us with the necessary speed and phase accuracy to build the best Quantitative Phase Imaging systems on the market. Phi Optics has found the phase accuracy of Meadowlark’s Reflective SLMs to be the best on the commercial market today. Perhaps the best features of Meadowlark products are ease of use and reliability.

Meadowlark support engineers are among the most responsive and helpful in the field of optoelectronic components. 

I’ve been working with Meadowlark for close to a decade both in the UK and in the US. Throughout this period Meadowlark has consistently developed, manufactured, and supported some of the worlds most advanced spatial light modulators. Each SLM development has been uniquely placed to answer new and exciting questions in research and beyond and has led to some exceptional science. Our relationship within Meadowlark has always been one of mutual respect for our customers. Meadowlark provides excellent support for their products with the aim of ensuring shared success and customer satisfaction.

• • N. L. Seldomridge, J. A. Shaw, and K. S. Repasky, "Dual-polarization lidar using a liquid crystal variable retarder," Optical Engineering 45(10), 106202 (2006).
    • Studies conducted with our LCVR-based dual-polarization lidar include the first experimental demonstration that beautiful diffraction colors can indeed arise in mountain wave clouds.
  • N. J. Pust and J. A. Shaw, "Dual-field imaging polarimeter using liquid crystal variable retarders," Applied Optics 45(22), 5470-5478 (2006).
    • We have used our LCVR-based all-sky polarization imager to improve fundamental understanding of how skylight polarization varies with atmospheric and surface conditions. Some examples include studies of polarized skylight in partly cloudy skies, the role of ground reflectance in determining sky polarization, effects of wildfire smoke on sky polarization, the wavelength spectrum of sky polarization (paper 1, paper 2), different ways of visualizing all-sky polarization images, and the distribution and temporal evolution of sky polarization during a solar eclipse (paper 1, paper 2).