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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 54, Issue 36, Pages 10698-10704Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.54.010698
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [15RYCOR159, FA9550-14-1-0196]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Transmissive and reflective spatial light modulators have been designed and simulated for the 1.55 to 2.10 mu m spectral region. An electrically actuated layer of phase-change material (PCM) was employed as the electro-optical medium for two-state self-holding light-to-dark intensity modulation of free-space light beams. The PCM was sandwiched between transparent conductive N-doped Si or indium tin oxide contact layers in a simple planar structure. A 100 to 500 nm PCM layer of Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) was employed for optimum performance at 1.55 mu m where the transmissive-modulator insertion loss was around 4.5 dB. The GST light-dark contrast was found to be 32 dB. For the GST reflection device, an included metal film (Ag) improved the 1.55 mu m performance metrics to 0.7 dB of insertion loss with a contrast around 26 dB. The calculated performance for both types of spatial light modulators was robust to changes in the input incidence angle near normal incidence. Applications include infrared scene generation and signal processing. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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