Pulse Shaping Application Note Overview: Quantum computing is a type of computing that uses the rules of quantum physics to process information. Instead of using bits of information (1s and 0s) like a regular computer, quantum computers use qubits, which can represent a 0, a 1, or both at the same time. This makes them […]
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Pulse Shaping Application Note Overview: By modulating the phase and/or amplitude of the spectral component of broadband femtosecond lasers, it is possible to generate arbitrarily shaped ultrafast optical waveforms. Applications for this technology include optical communications, biomedical optical imaging, high-power laser amplifiers, quantum control, and laser-electron beam interactions. The typical implementation utilizes a grating to
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Holographic Optical Tweezing (Hot) Application Note Overview: Holographic optical tweezing uses tightly focused laser beams to manipulate the 3D position of objects within a field of view. This can be used for research in fundamental physics, biological studies, and cold atom trapping. The SLM is used to modulate the phase of an incident laser beam
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General Microscopy Application Note Overview: Much research is aimed at improving imaging in a variety of conditions such as: correcting for spherical aberrations in 3D imaging far from the ideal focal plane, correcting for motionrelated artifacts, and developing new imaging modalities. In each case the SLM is used as a powerful tool to supplement and
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Psf Engineering Application Note Overview: With the recent award of the Nobel Prize to Betzig and Moerner there has been a significant increase in awareness of point spread function (PSF) engineering. In this case the SLM is placed in the emission arm of a microscope. Moerner demonstrated use of PSF engineering with a Meadowlark Optics
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Fiber-Based Optical Manipulation Application Note Overview: Fiber optic communications have long been of interest, but more recently the technology is being coupled with SLMs for imaging deep in tissue where scattering would otherwise prevent optical techniques from being practical. Much research is focused on imaging through multi-mode fibers due to the small form factor that
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Optogenetics Application Note Overview: Despite extensive research, brain function and neurological diseases are poorly understood. Complexities arise from the quantity of neurons in the brain and from the densely interconnected networks of intermixed cell types. There is a need for methods that non-invasively probe the underlying micro-circuitry in the brain with single-cell resolution…. [dflip id=”7039″][/dflip]
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Volumetric Imaging Application Note Overview: In order to understand biological functions at a system level it is necessary to imageinterconnectivity of processes in real time. This is particularly relevant in neuroscience, where the BRAIN initiative is funding research to understand how the brain functions, and how that function is altered by disease. This requires imaging
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Imaging In Scattering Or Turbid Media Overview: Adaptive optics was first utilized to correct for aberrations that are introduced when imaging through atmospheric turbulence. In monochromatic imaging systems or laser communication systems wavefront correction is most easily accomplished by adding a liquid crystal spatial light modulator to the imaging system. By applying an equal and
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