A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator

Christopher L. Panuski; Ian Christen; Momchil Minkov; Cole J.  Brabec; Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills; Alexander D. Griffiths; Jonathan J. D. McKendry; Gerald L. Leake; Daniel J. Coleman; Cung Tran; Jeffrey St. Louis; John Mucci; Cameron Horvath; Jocelyn N. Westwood-Bachman; Stefan F. Preble; Martin D. Dawson; Michael J. Strain; Michael L. Fanto; Dirk R. Englund

doi:10.1038/s41566-022-01086-9

A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator

Christopher L. Panuski, Ian Christen, Momchil Minkov, Cole J. Brabec, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Alexander D. Griffiths, Jonathan J. D. McKendry, Gerald L. Leake, Daniel J. Coleman, Cung Tran, Jeffrey St. Louis, John Mucci, Cameron Horvath, Jocelyn N. Westwood-Bachman, Stefan F. Preble, Martin D. Dawson, Michael J. Strain, Michael L. Fanto, Dirk R. Englund

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Abstract

Harnessing the full complexity of optical fields requires the complete control of all degrees of freedom within a region of space and time—an open goal for present-day spatial light modulators, active metasurfaces and optical phased arrays. Here, we resolve this challenge with a programmable photonic crystal cavity array enabled by four key advances: (1) near-unity vertical coupling to high-finesse microcavities through inverse design; (2) scalable fabrication by optimized 300 mm full-wafer processing; (3) picometre-precision resonance alignment using automated, closed-loop ‘holographic trimming’; and (4) out-of-plane cavity control via a high-speed μLED array. Combining each, we demonstrate the near-complete spatiotemporal control of a 64 resonator, two-dimensional spatial light modulator with nanosecond- and femtojoule-order switching. Simultaneously operating wavelength-scale modes near the space–bandwidth and time–bandwidth limits, this work opens a new regime of programmability at the fundamental limits of multimode optical control.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	834–842
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature Photonics
Volume	16
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01086-9
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2022

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integrated optics
nanophotonics and plasmonics
spatial light modulators
active metasurfaces
optical phased arrays

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Panuski, C. L., Christen, I., Minkov, M., Brabec, C. J., Trajtenberg-Mills, S., Griffiths, A. D., McKendry, J. J. D., Leake, G. L., Coleman, D. J., Tran, C., St. Louis, J., Mucci, J., Horvath, C., Westwood-Bachman, J. N., Preble, S. F., Dawson, M. D., Strain, M. J., Fanto, M. L., & Englund, D. R. (2022). A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator. Nature Photonics, 16(12), 834–842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01086-9

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