The LC-R 2500 is an easy-to-use Spatial Light Modulator system based on a reflective LCOS microdisplay. The LC-R 2500 Spatial Light Modulator supports DVI-signals with XGA resolution (1024 x 768 pixel). The advantages of the LC-R 2500 are the good phase shifting properties in the visible. Depending on the input polarisation, this spatial light modulator can be used for both, amplitude or phase modulation.

High light efficiency due to the reflective LCOS microdisplay and the phase mostly modulation mode guarantee excellent optical performance. Flex extensions and a special display mount makes integration into optical systems easy.

With the LC-R 2500 Spatial Light Modulator developer kit, HOLOEYE provides a high-end device for real-time optical pattern generation and wavefront modulation using incoherent or coherent light. The highest potential of this Spatial Light Modulators is the use as a dynamic phase modulating device, which acts as an addressable diffractive element. The LC-R 2500 is an ideal device for developments and research in technical optics, structured illumination, optical tweezers, holography, diffractive optics, interferometry, pattern recognition, and light modulation in general.

The LC-R 2500 can be plugged directly to a computer graphics card by the DVI interface. Live addressing with the frame rate of the graphic card and the function as a MS Windows desktop makes the setup easy. The device is controlled by a HOLOEYE driver software (MS Windows), which provides the opportunity to controll all relevant image parameters and provides a very easy gamma control to configure the Spatial Light Modulator for different applications.

Furthermore a tailored Spatial Light Modulator application software allows the simple generation of diverse dynamic optical functions like gratings, lenses, axicons and apertures as well as the calculation of diffractive optical elements (DOE) from user defined images.