For many years, optics has been employed in computing, although the major focus has been
and remains to be on connecting parts of computers, for communications, or more …

Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

The ever increasing capacity demand on optical networks and the slowdown of improving
spectral efficiency lead to the solution of utilizing more wavelength band in existing optical …

Existing for almost four decades, liquid crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology is rapidly
growing into photonic applications. We review the basics of the technology, from the wafer to …

With the distinct advantages of high resolution, small pixel size, and multi-level pure phase
modulation, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) devices afford precise and reconfigurable spatial …

Problems with the laser additive manufacturing of metal parts related to its low efficiency are
known to hamper its development and application. The method of selective laser melting of …

Fine pixel size and high-resolution liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) backplanes have been
developed by various companies and research groups since 1973. The development of …

We report two high birefringence and low viscosity nematic mixtures for phase-only liquid-
crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulators. The measured response time (on+ off) of a test …

Phase-only devices based on liquid crystals are becoming popular solutions for a high
number of applications in many diverse areas. The use of an electrooptic material such as …