A review of liquid crystal spatial light modulators: devices and applications

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-liquid-crystal-spatial-modulators-devices.html

"digital creation, control, detection, and harnessing exotic forms sculptured, structured light.... high resolution in amplitude, phase, polarization, path, orbital angular momentum, and spatiotemporal control... millions of pixels modulated in an in-principle lossless manner, applicable to optical communication, microscopy, imaging, detectors, quantum optics... trapping, tweezing and manipulating objects in 3D, applicable to physics, chemistry, medicine and biology"