Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Don M Cottrell.
We report a simple approach for generating nondiffracting random intensity patterns that do not change with propagation. Experimental results are shown where the generating patterns are encoded onto a phase-only liquid-crystal display. We expect that these results will be useful for encryption or surveillance applications.
We report what to our knowledge is a new technique for encoding both amplitude and phase information onto a single binary-valued spatial light modulator. In our approach, we spatially modulate the diffraction efficiency of the filter. Light that is not diffracted into the first order is sent into the zero order, effectively allowing amplitude modulation of either the first-order or zero-order diffracted light. This technique has applications in both optical pattern recognition and image processing. Experimental results are included.