Session #2, Optical Modulator and Their Applications
Wednesday, March 9 2011, 10:00-13:30
Chair: Ibrahim Abdulhalim

S2T1 10:00-10:30 Sven T. Lagerwall, Chalmers University, Sweden (Invited)

The present state in the development of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal materials

S2T2 10:30-11:00 Nail Collings, Cambridge University, UK (Invited)

The technology and applications of optically addressed spatial light modulators

S2T3 11:00-11:20 Mitya Reznikov, Lena M. Lopatina and Philip J.Bos, Michael J. O'Callaghan, Kent State University, USA, Micron Technology

The effect of surface alignment on analog control of director rotation in polarization stiffened SmC* devices

S2T4 11:20-11:40 David Seinfeld and Dan M. Marom, The Hebrew University, Israel

Photonic Spectral Processor Employing Two-Dimensional WDM Channel Separation and a Phase LCoS Modulator

S2T5 12:10-12:40 V. Reshetnyak, S. Belykh, S. Subota, H. Ren, S. T. Wu and T.J. Sluckin, University of Kyiv, Ukraine, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, University of Southampton, UK. (Invited)

Tunable-focus liquid crystal lenses

S2T6 12:40-13:00 Yonathan Dunayevsky and Dan M. Marom, The Hebrew University, Israel

MEMS diffractive light modulator for spectral phase and amplitude modulation

S2T7 13:00-13:30 Zeev Zalevsky, Ohad Fixler, Vicente Micó, Javier García and Bahram Javidi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Universitat de València, Spain, University of Connecticut (Invited)

Usage of spatial light modulation in phase-shifting Gabor holographic microscopy and in geometric super resolved imaging configurations