摘要:
Electrostatic optical shutter is disclosed in which a resilient electrode in the shape of a membrane made from optically transparent and electrically insulating film is disposed over an optically transparent and electrically insulating substrate and supported by one or several flexible tether beams which are attached to the substrate through the conductive pillars. Both the membrane and the substrate contain a grating with periodically repeated parallel stripes made from electrically conductive and opaque material. The stripes are connected at one or both ends to form continuous electrodes, while the grating structures on the electrodes are shifted from each other by a half a period to block the light transmission through the shutter in the unbiased state. Under electrical bias, the membrane is moved both laterally and normally to the substrate, which results in a spatial alignment of the conductive stripes in both grating structures and formation of the openings in the shutter for the light transmission. A flat panel display having video and color capabilities and comprising two-dimensional matrix of such shutters is disclosed. To implement passive matrix driving architecture, each pixel of the display contains a thin-film diode and a thin-film resistor to eliminate cross talk between the pixels. Both the transmissive and reflective modes of the display operation are proposed. A sequential pulsed illumination with the light emitting diodes of three major colors is used to produce the color in the display. Another approach in making a flat panel display, capable of operating in both transmissive and reflective mode, is disclosed in which two-terminal electrical control of the pixels produces effect of bistability in positioning of the membrane relative to the substrate and thereby provides a memory effect, which allows one to hold the “on”-state of each pixel for almost the entire frame time and thus increase the display brightness.
摘要:
An optically addressed spatial light modulator may be formed with an integrated light emitting device display. The light emitting device display may be formed of a size and cost that optimizes the overall modulator design. In addition, by integrating the modulator and display devices, the overall size of the spatial light modulator may be reduced in some embodiments.
摘要:
A light shutter device including a group of light shutter elements 31a, 31b 31c and 31d formed on a light shutter chip 30 made of PLZT has a construction in which an electrode gap is set wider in a element in which an electric field acts more strongly to equalize half wavelength voltages of elements almost to the same level since electric fields acting on the elements are different in strength from each other even under a prescribed voltage applied between a common electrode 32 and each of individual electrodes 33. An electrode gap of an element 31c having a weaker electric field is comparatively set narrower, whereas an electrode gap of an element 31d having a stronger electric field is set comparatively wider. Moreover, a shape of electrodes of each element are altered so as to make half wavelength voltages of elements almost equal.
摘要:
A bias voltage stabilizing method for an electricity-optical modulator based on an off-level sampling is disclosed. The method includes the steps of a first step for detecting an electric signal by feed-back an output optical signal of a MZ optical modulator, performing a sample and hold for an OFF level and converting the signal into a digital data, a second step for receiving the sample and hold data with respect to the OFF level, controlling a bias value by performing an up and down count so that a minimum operation level is maintained at near a zero level of an output optical signal based on a binary data and a current data value, and adjusting a bias value, and a third step for outputting a bias control voltage of an optical modulator by converting the bias value controlled by the up and down count into an analog signal, for thereby controlling an adaptive bias voltage irrespective of a traffic characteristic of a signal by selectively extracting an OFF level of an output light, measuring the thusly extracted level and minimizing the value for thereby controlling a bias voltage.
摘要:
Disclosed are a light modulation apparatus including a liquid crystal device; and a polarizing plate disposed in an optical path of light made incident on said liquid crystal device; wherein said liquid crystal device is of a guest-host type using a negative type liquid crystal as a host material, an image pickup apparatus using the light modulation apparatus, and methods of driving the light modulation apparatus and image pickup apparatus.
摘要:
An electro-modulating device for modulating light from a light source, as part of an opto-electronic communication network has a modulating medium for modulating light passing therethrough by varying an electric field applied across the modulating medium, an optical input-output surface, a light reflector, and electrodes for applying the varying electric field across the modulating medium. The input-output surface, the medium and the reflector are arranged so that light enters the medium through the input-output surface, travels through the medium towards the reflector, is reflected by the reflector to travel back through the medium towards the input-output surface, and exits the medium through the input-output surface. The electric field is transverse to light traversing the medium between the input-out surface and the reflector, to make it easier to couple an optic fiber to the input-output surface of the modulating medium.
摘要:
A polarization independent optical device is provided wherein the device has two optical paths that include one or more birefringent crystals, a electrically controllable rotator, and a fixed waveplate. The device may operate as a switch, attenuator, coupler, or polarization mode dispersion compensator. The device may also include several folded path embodiments, a multifunctional embodiment, and a temperature insensitive embodiment.
摘要:
A transflective color display having apertures in reflective electrodes through which light from a backlight (9) passes in the transmissive mode. The switching behavior for both the reflective and the transmissive mode is made identical by introducing a retardation plate (11). The transmission efficiency is further increased by using only a monochrome green mode in transmission.
摘要:
To prevent the substrate floating effect that is caused when a transistor channel region fabricated of a monocrystal silicon layer covered with an insulator is in a floating state, and to stabilize the electrical characteristics of the transistor. A channel region of a semiconductor layer includes an extension portion. The end of the extension portion is connected to a contact hole. The contact hole is in turn connected to an interconnect line. The interconnect line is configured with one end thereof connected to the contact hole and with the other end connected to a contact hole leading to a light-shielding layer.
摘要:
A solid state device used to modulate the intensity of reflected or transmitted light by modulating with an external voltage the optical thickness of a thin film ferroelectric placed in an etalon cavity is disclosed. The device is constructed by selecting a generally planar supporting substrate, preferably silicon or sapphire in order to be compatible with silicon integrated circuits. A dielectric stack consisting of alternating layers of different index of refraction materials, also specifically selected to be compatible with later growth of the thin film ferroelectric, is deposited thereon to form a partially reflective and partially transmitting mirror, followed by a transparent electrically conductive layer. The thin film ferroelectric is deposited on the conductive layer, followed by a second transparent conductive layer and a second dielectric stack. Leads are connected to the conductive layers and in turn to a voltage generator. In one version of the invention, the functions of both the second (top) electrically conductive layer and dielectric stack are fulfilled by using a semi-transparent conducting film. In another version, the functions of both the first (bottom) electrically conductive layer and dielectric stack are also fulfilled by using a, preferably, highly reflective conducting film.