Transmissive surface plasmon light valve
A surface plasmon device that operates in a transmissive mode. The light is coupled through optically transparent layers to a surface plasmon which alters the color of the light.
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A surface plasmon device that operates in a transmissive mode. The light is coupled through optically transparent layers to a surface plasmon which alters the color of the light.
A display system having a non-absorbing and reflective color filtering array and a reflector to improve light utilization efficiency. One implementation of the color filtering array uses a surface plasmon filter having two symmetric metal-dielectric interfaces coupled with each other to produce a transmission optical wave at a surface plasmon resonance wavelength at one interface from a p-polarized input beam on the other interface. Another implementation of the color filtering array uses a metal-film interference filter having two dielectric layers and three metallic films.
A microscope formed from an image sensor placed against a microchannel filter so that there is one to one correspondence between the sample and the sensor, effectively enlarging the image.
Interference filters and filter arrays based on thin-metal film interference filters having at least one dielectric layer formed between two thin-metal films to form a Fabry-Perot cavity.
Recently, Jet Propulsion Laboratory has invented and developed a miniature optical microscope, microscope-on-chip using micro-channel and solid state image sensors. It is lightweight, low-power, fast speed instrument, it has no image lens, does not need focus adjustment, and the total mass is less than 100g. A prototype has been built and demonstrated at JPL.
When applying to LCD projectors, SPTF can simplify the system structure, and enhance the efficiency.
Surface plasmon tunable filter is a new technology under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This technology can be used to build a tunable mirror.