Spatial light modulator

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1987-08-06

1989-09-12

LaRoche, Eugene R.

350392, 350 9614, G02F 101, G02B 610

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ABSTRACT:
Spatial light modulators which use a substrate having a buried channel charge-coupled device (CCD) formed therein, wherein the amount of charge in the charge storage wells associated with the electrodes of the CCD is controlled by an electrically or optically addressed data signal. The level of charge in such charge storage wells controls the electric field beneath the electrodes so that the intensity of electromagnetic energy (e.g., light) directed through The CCD is spatially modulated by the charge levels in the charge storage wells in accordance with the Franz-Keldysh electroabsorption effect.

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