Short-visible-wavelength GHz Display

Applications such as quantum control, manufacturing, biology, and sensing require blue and ultraviolet light modulated in space and time. We propose and implement a strategy for fast, individual, coherent control of spatially-multiplexed channels at blue and ultraviolet wavelengths by combining an i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Propson, Thomas C.
Other Authors: Englund, Dirk R.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156289
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Summary:Applications such as quantum control, manufacturing, biology, and sensing require blue and ultraviolet light modulated in space and time. We propose and implement a strategy for fast, individual, coherent control of spatially-multiplexed channels at blue and ultraviolet wavelengths by combining an integrated photonic modulator array with a strong pump beam for sum-frequency generation in a bulk nonlinear crystal. We realize a 4x4 array of amplitude-modulated spots at 420nm with a 3dB bandwidth of 2GHz.