WO2012111570A1 - 空間光変調装置および空間光変調方法 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a technique for correcting a fluctuation amount of a phase modulation amount accompanying a temperature change of a liquid crystal layer in a phase modulation type spatial light modulation device and a spatial light modulation method.
- Patent Document 1 describes a technique related to a temperature compensation device for a color liquid crystal display element. The purpose of this technique is to allow temperature-optimal output voltage data to be appropriately corrected for each of a plurality of color liquid crystal display elements in accordance with variations and changes over time.
- FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of this apparatus. As shown in FIG. 14, this apparatus has a temperature detection circuit 211 and a data table in which digital temperature vs. optimum output voltage data is stored and optimum output voltage data corresponding to the temperature data from the temperature detection circuit 211 is read out.
- voltage correction means 217 for correcting the optimum output voltage data read from the data table 212, and D / A conversion for D / A conversion of the optimum output voltage data and sending it to the drive circuit of the liquid crystal display element A circuit 213, an operation unit 216 for providing correction data to the voltage correction means 217, and correction of temperature versus optimum output voltage data in the data table 212 based on the correction data from the operation unit 216 and the temperature data from the temperature detection circuit 211
- a control means 214 for controlling.
- Patent Document 2 describes a technique related to a liquid crystal panel drive device that drives a liquid crystal panel at high speed by overdrive.
- FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the liquid crystal panel driving device.
- This liquid crystal panel driving device is a device that performs overdrive using a frame memory 231 and a lookup table 232, and includes a plurality of types of lookup tables 232 corresponding to different temperature ranges. This device switches the lookup table 232 by operating the selection circuit 233 based on the temperature information of the LCD module 234 obtained from the temperature sensor 235.
- Patent Document 3 describes a technique related to a transflective liquid crystal display device.
- FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the liquid crystal display device.
- This liquid crystal display device includes a correction circuit 241.
- the correction circuit 241 includes a lookup table selection unit 242, a plurality of transmission mode lookup tables 243, a plurality of reflection mode lookup tables 253, a frame memory 244, a mode determination unit 245, a switch 246, and a switch control unit 256.
- the transmission mode look-up table 243 and the reflection mode look-up table 253 store correction values (correction gradations) that emphasize temporal changes in signals in association with combinations of the current gradation and the target gradation.
- FIG. 17 is a table showing an example of the configuration of the reflection mode lookup table 253.
- the switch control unit 256 stores the threshold value Y related to the ambient temperature, and the mode selection signal MD output from the mode determination unit 245 is at a low level or is output from the temperature sensor 248 via the A / D converter 247.
- the low level switch control signal SC is output, and otherwise, the high level switch control signal SC is output.
- the switch 246 includes a correction gradation output from the transmission mode lookup table 243 or the reflection mode lookup table 253 selected by the lookup table selection unit 242, an input video signal V 1, and a switch control signal SC. Is entered.
- the switch 246 outputs the correction gradation as the corrected video signal V2 when the switch control signal SC is at the low level and the input video signal V1 when the switch control signal SC is at the high level.
- a spatial light modulator includes a liquid crystal layer and electrodes provided for each of a plurality of pixels along the liquid crystal layer.
- the liquid crystal molecules rotate according to the magnitude of the voltage, and the birefringence of the liquid crystal changes.
- the phase of the light changes inside the liquid crystal layer, the light having a phase difference is emitted to the outside with respect to the incident light.
- the relationship between the magnitude of the applied voltage and the phase difference (ie, phase modulation amount) of the emitted light before and after the voltage application is the phase modulation characteristic of the spatial light modulation element.
- phase modulation amount the relationship between the phase modulation amount and the applied voltage is non-linear.
- a look-up table showing a plurality of values corresponding to the phase modulation amount and the applied voltage is used.
- the temperature compensation device described in Patent Document 1 described above is intended to correct a color change following the temperature change of the liquid crystal display device.
- This temperature compensation device holds in advance an LUT representing the relationship between the temperature of the liquid crystal display element and the applied voltage value, and selects an applied voltage value corresponding to the detected temperature from the LUT.
- the devices described in Patent Documents 2 and 3 are provided with a plurality of LUTs representing the relationship between the temperature and the applied voltage value, and select the optimum LUT according to the magnitude of the temperature change.
- each of the devices described in Patent Documents 1 to 3 includes an LUT that represents the relationship between temperature and applied voltage value.
- the relationship between the phase modulation amount and the applied voltage is non-linear.
- the present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and it is possible to reduce the necessary storage capacity, to facilitate the production, and to improve the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to a desired phase modulation amount. It is an object to provide a modulation device and a spatial light modulation method.
- a spatial light modulation device is a spatial light modulation device that modulates the phase of incident light for each of a plurality of pixels arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally.
- a liquid crystal layer that modulates the phase of incident light according to the magnitude of the applied electric field; (2) a temperature sensor that generates a temperature signal that is a signal according to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer; and (3) provided for each of a plurality of pixels. It is provided with a voltage for generating an applied electric field and a plurality of pixel electrodes to be applied to the liquid crystal layer, and a voltage generator for providing a voltage to the (4) a plurality of pixel electrodes.
- the voltage generation unit includes a storage unit that stores in advance one or a plurality of coefficients included in a function representing a correlation between the temperature change amount of the liquid crystal layer and the amount of change in the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer, An operation for correcting the magnitude of the voltage is performed using the temperature indicated by the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor and one or more coefficients.
- the storage means of the voltage generation unit stores one or more coefficients included in a function representing the correlation between the temperature change amount of the liquid crystal layer and the amount of change in the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer. ing. As shown in an embodiment described later, the inventor obtains such a function in advance and stores the coefficient thereof, so that the variation of the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change can be achieved without using a large amount of LUT. It has been found that it can be suitably corrected. That is, in this spatial light modulator, the voltage generator corrects the magnitude of the applied voltage using the temperature indicated in the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor and the one or more coefficients. For the operation.
- an applied voltage value corresponding to a desired phase modulation amount can be continuously obtained corresponding to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer, so that a desired phase can be obtained.
- the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to the modulation amount can be increased.
- the spatial light modulation device may be configured such that the function is a linear function and the number of coefficients is one.
- the voltage range is preferably limited to a predetermined range in which the function can be approximated as a linear function.
- the spatial light modulator has a voltage generator that uses the following formula: (Where T is the temperature indicated in the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor, T0 is the reference temperature, S0 is the control input value for obtaining a desired phase modulation amount at the reference temperature T0, and ⁇ is a coefficient).
- the control input value S for controlling the magnitude of the voltage may be corrected.
- the spatial light modulation device may be configured such that the function is an n-order function (n is an integer of 2 or more) and the number of coefficients is n.
- the voltage generator has the following formula: (Where T is a temperature indicated by a temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor, T0 is a reference temperature, S0 is a control input value for obtaining a desired phase modulation amount at the reference temperature T0, and ⁇ 1 ... ⁇ n is n.
- the control input value S for controlling the magnitude of the voltage may be corrected based on the number of coefficients.
- the spatial light modulation method is provided for each of a plurality of pixels arranged in one or two dimensions, a liquid crystal layer that modulates the phase of incident light in accordance with the magnitude of the applied electric field,
- a spatial light modulation method using a plurality of pixel electrodes that apply a voltage to be generated to a liquid crystal layer (1) a temperature acquisition step of acquiring a temperature signal that is a signal corresponding to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer from a temperature sensor; (2)
- One or more coefficients included in a function representing a correlation between a temperature change amount with respect to a reference temperature of the liquid crystal layer and a variation amount of the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer are stored in the storage unit.
- the storage means stores one or a plurality of coefficients included in a function representing the correlation between the temperature change amount of the liquid crystal layer and the variation amount of the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer.
- the inventor obtains such a function in advance and stores the coefficient thereof, so that the variation of the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change can be achieved without using a large amount of LUT. It has been found that it can be suitably corrected. That is, in this spatial light modulation method, in the correction calculation step, the temperature indicated by the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor and the one or more coefficients are used to correct the magnitude of the applied voltage. Perform the operation.
- an applied voltage value corresponding to a desired phase modulation amount can be continuously obtained corresponding to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer, so that a desired phase can be obtained.
- the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to the modulation amount can be increased.
- the spatial light modulation method may be configured such that the function is a linear function and the number of coefficients is one.
- the voltage range is preferably limited to a predetermined range that can approximate the function as a linear function.
- the spatial light modulation method uses the following formula in the correction calculation step: (Where T is the temperature indicated in the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor, T0 is the reference temperature, S0 is the control input value for obtaining a desired phase modulation amount at the reference temperature T0, and ⁇ is a coefficient).
- the control input value S for controlling the magnitude of the voltage may be corrected.
- the spatial light modulation method may be configured such that the function is an n-order function (n is an integer of 2 or more) and the number of coefficients is n.
- the spatial light modulation method uses the following formula in the correction calculation step: (Where T is a temperature indicated by a temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor, T0 is a reference temperature, S0 is a control input value for obtaining a desired phase modulation amount at the reference temperature T0, and ⁇ 1 ... ⁇ n is n.
- the control input value S for controlling the magnitude of the voltage may be corrected based on the number of coefficients.
- a spatial light modulation device and a spatial light modulation method that can reduce the required storage capacity, are easy to manufacture, and can increase the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to a desired phase modulation amount.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device according to an embodiment.
- Figure 2 is a view showing a state of rotating the liquid crystal molecules on the drawing, and (b) each of the pixel electrodes show a portion of (a) of the phase modulation unit configured.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the driving device and the control device of the voltage generation unit.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a method of calculating temperature change coefficient data.
- FIG. 5 is a graph showing an example of the relationship between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the phase modulation amount.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram conceptually showing the structure of the basic database.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device according to an embodiment.
- Figure 2 is a view showing a state of rotating the liquid crystal molecules on the drawing, and (b) each of the pixel electrodes show a portion of (a) of the phase modulation unit configured
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a polarization interferometer as an example of an optical system used when creating a basic database.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing a specific example of the relationship between the applied voltage and the phase modulation amount.
- Figure 9 is a graph showing temperature variation of the liquid crystal layer ⁇ and (° C.), an example of the relationship between the variation amount of the phase modulation amount gamma (%).
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a spatial light modulation method according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device which is a first modification.
- FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a spatial light modulation method according to the first modification.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device as a second modification.
- FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the apparatus described in Patent Document 1.
- FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the liquid crystal panel driving device described in Patent Document 2.
- FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the liquid crystal display device described in Patent Document 3.
- FIG. 17 is a table showing an example of the configuration of the reflection mode lookup table of the liquid crystal display device described in Patent Document 3.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device 1A according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the spatial light modulation device 1 ⁇ / b> A of this embodiment includes a phase modulation unit 10.
- the phase modulation unit 10 has a configuration in which liquid crystal is formed on a silicon substrate, a reflective liquid crystal display panel (so-called LCOS-SLM).
- the phase modulation unit 10 modulates the phase of incident light.
- the spatial light modulation device 1A includes a voltage generation unit 50A.
- the voltage generation unit 50A includes a drive device 20A and a control device 30A.
- the phase modulation unit 10, the driving device 20A, and the control device 30A are respectively housed in independent housings.
- FIG. 2A is a side sectional view showing a part of the configuration of the phase modulation unit 10.
- the phase modulation unit 10 includes a silicon substrate 11 and a liquid crystal layer 12 provided on the silicon substrate 11.
- the phase modulation unit 10 includes a first electrode 13 disposed between the silicon substrate 11 and the liquid crystal layer 12 and a first electrode 13 provided at a position sandwiching the liquid crystal layer 12 between the first electrode 13.
- Two electrodes 14 are further provided.
- the first electrode 13 has a plurality of pixel electrodes 13 a for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the plurality of pixel electrodes 13a are two-dimensionally arranged over a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a plurality of pixels of the phase modulation unit 10 are defined by these pixel electrodes 13a.
- the second electrode 14 is made of a metal film deposited on one surface of the glass substrate 15.
- the glass substrate 15 is supported on the silicon substrate 11 via a spacer 16 so that the one surface and the silicon substrate 11 face each other.
- the liquid crystal layer 12 is formed by filling a liquid crystal between the silicon substrate 11 and the glass substrate 15.
- the analog signal voltage output from the driving device 20A is applied between each pixel electrode 13a and the second electrode 14.
- an electric field is generated in the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the liquid crystal molecules 12a on each pixel electrode 13a rotate according to the magnitude of the applied electric field. Since the liquid crystal molecules 12a have birefringence, when light is transmitted through the glass substrate 15, only the light component parallel to the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules 12a is included in the light according to the rotation of the liquid crystal molecules 12a. A phase difference is given. In this way, the phase of light is modulated for each pixel electrode 13a.
- the phase modulation unit 10 of the present embodiment further includes a temperature sensor 17 in order to correct such a variation due to temperature change.
- the temperature sensor 17 is provided to detect the temperature of the phase modulation unit 10, particularly the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12, and generates a temperature signal Stemp that is a signal corresponding to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the temperature sensor 17 is disposed on, for example, the silicon substrate 11 or the glass substrate 15.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating configurations of the drive device 20A and the control device 30A of the voltage generation unit 50A.
- the control device 30 ⁇ / b> A is preferably realized by, for example, an electronic computer having a central processing unit (CPU) 31, a memory 32, and a hard disk 33.
- the hard disk 33 stores a desired phase pattern 33a.
- the phase pattern 33 a is data for performing phase modulation with a desired phase modulation amount for each pixel of the phase modulation unit 10.
- the central processing unit 31 and the memory 32 convert the phase pattern 33a into a control input value (tone value) S1 for controlling the voltage value applied to the liquid crystal layer 12 of the phase modulation unit 10.
- the control device 30A further includes a communication unit 34 that exchanges signals with the drive device 20A, and the control input value S1 is sent to the communication unit 21 of the drive device 20A via the communication unit 34.
- various means such as serial communication and parallel communication can be used as communication means between the communication unit 34 and the communication unit 21. Further, this communication means may be either wired or wireless.
- the driving device 20A includes a communication unit 21, an input processing unit 22, a non-volatile storage element (Read Only Memory: ROM) 23, an addition unit 24, a temperature correction unit 25, an LUT processing unit 26, a digital / Analog converter 27 and temperature sensor processor 28.
- ROM Read Only Memory
- the communication unit 21 exchanges signals such as the control input value S1 with the communication unit 34 of the control device 30A.
- Input processing unit 22 based on the signal received from the communication unit 21, to generate a trigger signal Str for generating a vertical synchronizing signal and a horizontal synchronizing signal.
- the nonvolatile storage element 23 is a storage unit that stores the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a, the temperature change coefficient data 23b, and the LUT 23c.
- the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a is data for correcting the surface distortion generated on the surface of the first electrode 13 when a circuit element around the pixel electrode 13a is formed on the silicon substrate 11 by the phase difference provided by the liquid crystal layer 12. It is.
- the temperature change coefficient data 23b is data related to a coefficient for correcting a change in the relationship between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode 13a and the phase modulation amount due to a temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the LUT 23c is data for correcting the nonlinearity of the liquid crystal layer 12, that is, the nonlinearity between the magnitude of the voltage applied to each pixel electrode 13a and the phase modulation amount.
- the LUT 23c is data when the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is the reference temperature.
- the adder 24 reads the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a from the nonvolatile memory element 23, and adds the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a to the control input value S1 provided from the control device 30A, thereby performing control after the surface distortion correction.
- An input value S2 is generated.
- the adding unit 24 outputs the generated control input value S2 to the temperature correcting unit 25.
- the temperature correction unit 25 corrects the variation of the modulation characteristic due to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 with respect to the control input value S2.
- the temperature correction unit 25 reads the temperature change coefficient data 23 b from the nonvolatile memory element 23.
- the temperature correction unit 25 performs a predetermined calculation process on the control input value S2 based on the temperature change coefficient data 23b and the temperature value Ts obtained from the temperature sensor processing unit 28, thereby controlling the control input value S3. Is generated.
- the temperature correction unit 25 outputs the generated control input value S3 to the LUT processing unit 26.
- the LUT processing unit 26 reads the LUT 23c from the nonvolatile memory element 23.
- the LUT processing unit 26 generates a control input value S4 by performing a predetermined arithmetic process on the value output from the temperature correction unit 25 using the LUT 23c.
- the control input value S4 is obtained by converting the control input value S3 into a value suitable for input to the digital / analog conversion unit 27.
- the LUT processing unit 26 outputs the generated control input value S4 to the digital / analog conversion unit 27.
- the digital / analog converter 27 generates an analog voltage V for each pixel applied to each pixel of the phase modulator 10 based on the control input value S4.
- phase modulation unit 10 These analog voltages V are output to the phase modulation unit 10 through the driving unit 27a and applied to each pixel electrode 13a (see FIG. 2).
- the inclination of the liquid crystal molecules 12a changes according to the magnitude of the applied voltage V, and the refractive index changes.
- the phase distribution corresponding to the desired phase pattern 33a is spatially expressed, and the phase of the incident light is modulated.
- the temperature sensor processing unit 28 receives a temperature signal Stemp related to the current temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 from the temperature sensor 17 of the phase modulation unit 10.
- the temperature sensor processing unit 28 provides the temperature correction unit 25 with the temperature value Ts of the liquid crystal layer 12 read from the temperature signal Stemp.
- all or part of the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a, the temperature change coefficient data 23b, and the LUT 23c stored in the nonvolatile storage element 23 of the drive device 20A may be stored in the hard disk 33 of the control device 30A.
- all or some of the functions of the adding unit 24, the temperature correcting unit 25, and the LUT processing unit 26 may be realized by the central processing unit 31 and the memory 32.
- the phase modulation amount ⁇ has nonlinearity with respect to the applied voltage value V. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a control input value S1 that can treat the relationship with the phase modulation amount ⁇ as a linear is defined for convenience, and the correspondence between the control input value S1 and the voltage value V applied to each pixel electrode 13a. The relationship is expressed in the LUT 23c.
- the control input value S1 is an integer from 0 to 255 in one example.
- the LUT 23c is created as follows, for example.
- a discrete numerical value group ⁇ of the phase modulation amount ⁇ having linearity with respect to the control input value S1 is defined.
- the control input value S1 is an integer from 0 to 255 and the phase modulation amount ⁇ is a numerical value from 0 to 2 ⁇ (rad)
- the relationship between each numerical value of the phase modulation amount ⁇ and the control input value S1 is defined so as to satisfy the above. In this equation, each numerical value of the phase modulation amount ⁇ and the corresponding control input value S1 have a linear relationship.
- a voltage value V to be applied to the pixel electrode 13a in order to realize each of the phase modulation amounts ⁇ included in the numerical value group ⁇ is calculated based on the known phase modulation characteristics of the phase modulation unit 10. Then, a table of the phase modulation amount ⁇ included in the numerical value group ⁇ and the corresponding voltage value V is created. Since the phase modulation amount ⁇ included in the numerical value group ⁇ and each integer of the control input value S1 have a linear relationship with each other, this table is further converted into a correspondence table between the control input value S1 and the voltage value V ( Table). The converted correspondence table is the LUT 23c.
- an input value S to the LUT 23c is defined and the LUT 23c represents the relationship between the control input value S1 and the voltage value V.
- the input to the LUT 23c is a phase modulation amount ⁇ , The relationship between the phase modulation amount ⁇ and the voltage value V may be expressed.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the calculation method.
- FIG. 5 is a graph showing an example of the relationship between the voltage V applied to the pixel electrode 13a and the phase modulation amount ⁇ .
- FIG. 5 shows a graph G11 when the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is the reference temperature T0, a graph G12 when the temperature Tmax is assumed in the usage environment of the spatial light modulator 1A, and the spatial light modulator 1A.
- a graph G13 at the lowest temperature Tmin assumed in the usage environment is shown.
- the calculation of the temperature change coefficient data 23b may be performed, for example, when the spatial light modulation device 1A is inspected.
- the range of the voltage applied to the pixel electrode 13a is set based on the maximum temperature Tmax assumed in the liquid crystal layer 12 and the maximum phase modulation amount ⁇ max required for the phase modulation unit 10 at the maximum temperature Tmax.
- the maximum phase modulation amount ⁇ max is set to 2 ⁇ (rad) for easy understanding.
- the maximum value of the applied voltage range A set in step S11 is set to Vb, and the minimum value (that is, the voltage value corresponding to the maximum phase modulation amount ⁇ max) is set to Va (see FIG. 5).
- FIG. 6 is a diagram conceptually showing the structure of the basic database.
- the basic database 41 has a plurality of data (for the applied voltage V and the phase modulation amount ⁇ ) prepared for each temperature in the discrete temperature value group included in this temperature range. Data indicating the relationship). Among these data, as shown in FIG.
- the reference time data 41a indicating the relationship between the applied voltage V and the phase modulation amount ⁇ at the reference temperature T0, and the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 are included.
- High temperature data 41b indicating the relationship between the applied voltage V and the phase modulation amount ⁇ at the maximum temperature Tmax, and the relationship between the applied voltage V and the phase modulation amount ⁇ when the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is the minimum temperature Tmin.
- Low temperature data 41c is included.
- the relationship between the applied voltage V and the phase modulation amount ⁇ is all nonlinear.
- the amount of change in the phase modulation characteristics accompanying the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 is calculated over the entire range of the applied voltage range A (Va to Vb).
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a polarization interferometer 100 as an example of an optical system used when creating a basic database.
- the polarization interferometer 100 includes a temperature control device 101, a half mirror 102, a lens 103, an analyzer 104, a polarizer 105, a light source 106, and a light receiving element 107.
- the temperature control device 101 is a device for controlling the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 of the phase modulation unit 10 to an arbitrary temperature.
- the light source 106 generates light having a predetermined wavelength. The light having the predetermined wavelength enters the phase modulation unit 10 via the polarizer 105 and the half mirror 102.
- the light receiving element 107 detects the light intensity of the emitted light from the phase modulation unit 10.
- the light emitted from the phase modulation unit 10 is reflected by the half mirror 102 and then reaches the light receiving element 107 via the lens 103 and the analyzer 104.
- the analyzer 104 has a crossed Nicol or open Nicol relationship with the polarizer 105.
- the temperature controller 101 controls the liquid crystal layer 12 of the phase modulation unit 10 to an arbitrary temperature. Then, after the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is stabilized at a predetermined temperature, the voltage is applied to the pixel electrode 13a while changing the applied voltage in the entire voltage range that can be applied to the liquid crystal layer 12, and incident light generated by the electric field is changed. The phase difference from the emitted light is measured. Specifically, the light of the linearly polarized light parallel to the alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer 12 generated by the polarizer 105 to be incident to the light to the phase modulation unit 10.
- phase modulation occurs in the light emitted from the phase modulation unit 10 in accordance with the magnitude of the voltage applied to the pixel electrode 13a.
- the analyzer 104 is in a crossed Nicol (or open Nicol) relationship with the polarizer 105, so that the light intensity depends on the phase modulation amount of the emitted light. Changes. Therefore, based on the light intensity detected in the light receiving element 107 and the applied voltage value at that time, the relationship between the applied voltage and the phase modulation amount, that is, the basic database when the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is a predetermined temperature is obtained. Preferably obtained.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing a specific example of the relationship between the applied voltage and the amount of phase modulation obtained in this way, and graph G21 shows the case where the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is 20 degrees (minimum temperature Tmin).
- Graph G22 shows a case where the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is 27 degrees (reference temperature T0), and graph G23 shows a case where the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is 42 degrees (maximum temperature Tmax).
- the minimum voltage Va i.e. the voltage applied to the phase modulation amount becomes 2 ⁇ (rad)
- V 1.56
- the phase modulation amount ⁇ is measured over the entire voltage range that can be applied to the liquid crystal layer 12 for each temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12, and the results are collected in a table for each temperature.
- the phase modulation amount ⁇ also varies depending on the wavelength of incident light.
- the above-described step S12 is performed only once using the incident light of the reference wavelength, and the following conversion formula is applied to the basic database obtained as a result, whereby the basic at another wavelength is obtained. You can get a database. That is, when the reference wavelength is ⁇ standard and the phase modulation amount at the display gradation value tv is ⁇ standard (tv), the phase modulation amount ⁇ (tv) at a certain wavelength ⁇ is expressed by the following formula (1). ) In the above formula (1), the wavelength dispersion characteristic of the liquid crystal layer 12 may be further considered.
- the table related to the phase modulation amount ⁇ for each temperature obtained by the above method is converted into a table related to the change amount ⁇ of the phase modulation amount. That is, when the phase modulation unit 10 and the phase modulation amount phi T obtained when the temperature T, the phase modulation amount obtained when the phase modulation unit 10 is the reference temperature T0 and phi 0, the following The variation amount ⁇ of the phase modulation amount can be calculated from Equation (2).
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing an example of the relationship between the temperature change amount ⁇ (° C.) of the liquid crystal layer 12 and the phase modulation amount variation amount ⁇ based on the data obtained in step S12.
- the temperature change amount ⁇ is a difference (T ⁇ T0) between the reference temperature T0 and the temperature T.
- the temperature change amount ⁇ of the liquid crystal layer 12 and the phase modulation amount fluctuation amount ⁇ are approximately proportional to each other and can be approximated by a linear function G24. Such approximation is possible when the applied voltage range is limited to the applied voltage range A shown in FIG. 8, that is, a predetermined range that can be approximated as a linear function.
- a constant ⁇ of the following approximate expression (3) in this proportional relationship is obtained.
- This constant ⁇ is the temperature change coefficient ⁇ as the temperature change coefficient data 23b.
- the temperature change coefficient ⁇ represents a change in the phase modulation characteristic accompanying a temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 by a certain coefficient.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the spatial light modulation method of this embodiment.
- the phase pattern 33a stored in the hard disk 33 is converted into a control input value S1 in the control device 30A, and this control input value S1 is transferred from the control device 30A to the drive device 20A (step S21).
- the control input value S1 and the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a stored in the non-volatile storage element 23 of the driving device 20A are added by the adding unit 24 to generate the control input value S2 (step S22).
- the current temperature of the phase modulation unit 10 detected by the temperature sensor 17 is read by the temperature sensor processing unit 28 (step S23, temperature acquisition step). In addition, this step S23 may be performed in parallel with the said step S21 and S22.
- the temperature change coefficient data 23b stored in the nonvolatile memory element 23, the current temperature value read by the temperature sensor processing unit 28, and the control input value S2 are provided to the temperature correction unit 25.
- the temperature correction unit 25 calculates the control input value S3 in which the influence of the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 is corrected using the following temperature correction formula (4) (step S24, correction calculation step).
- T is the current temperature of the phase modulation unit 10
- T0 is the reference temperature of the phase modulation unit 10 (in one example, the temperature at the time of inspection)
- S0 is a desired temperature at the reference temperature T0. This is a control input value for obtaining the phase modulation amount ⁇ .
- step S25 a predetermined calculation process is performed on the control input value S3, and a control input value S4 suitable for input to the digital / analog conversion unit 27 is generated (step S25).
- step S26 an analog voltage for each pixel applied to each pixel of the phase modulation unit 10 is generated based on the control input value S4 in the digital / analog conversion unit 27 (step S26).
- step S26 an analog voltage for each pixel applied to each pixel of the phase modulation unit 10 is generated based on the control input value S4 in the digital / analog conversion unit 27 (step S26).
- These analog voltages are sent to the driving means 27a.
- step S27 voltage application step.
- the inclination of the liquid crystal molecules 12a changes according to the magnitude of the applied voltage, and the refractive index changes.
- the phase distribution corresponding to the desired phase pattern 33a is spatially expressed, and the phase of the incident light is modulated (step S28).
- the nonvolatile memory element 23 of the driving device 20A has a function representing a correlation between the temperature change amount of the liquid crystal layer 12 and the variation amount of the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer 12.
- One included coefficient ⁇ is stored.
- the inventor obtains a function representing the relationship between the temperature change amount of the liquid crystal layer 12 and the variation amount of the phase modulation amount in advance (see the above formula (3)), and stores the coefficient ⁇ in a large amount. It was found that the variation of the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change can be suitably corrected without using the LUT.
- the driving device 20A applies the temperature indicated by the temperature signal Stemp provided from the temperature sensor 17 and the one coefficient ⁇ .
- An operation for correcting the magnitude of the voltage V is performed.
- a required storage capacity can be reduced, and a spatial light modulation device and a spatial light modulation method that can be easily manufactured can be provided.
- an applied voltage value corresponding to a desired phase modulation amount can be continuously obtained in response to a temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12.
- it is possible to correct the phase modulation characteristics in a small temperature interval, such as 1 °C and 0.1 ° C. it is possible to improve the accuracy of the applied voltage value for the desired phase modulation amount.
- the temperature change coefficient ⁇ which is a proportional coefficient between the temperature change amount ⁇ of the liquid crystal layer 12 and the phase modulation amount variation ⁇
- the temperature correction unit 25 corrects the control input value S3.
- the control input value S3 can be corrected very easily without storing a large amount of data. That is, according to the spatial light modulation device 1A and the spatial light modulation method, the variation in the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 can be easily corrected.
- the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a is stored in the nonvolatile memory element 23 of the driving device 20A.
- the surface distortion correction pattern data may be stored in the hard disk 33 of the control device 30A.
- the function of the adding unit 24 may be realized by the central processing unit 31 and the memory 32 of the control device 30B.
- a desired phase pattern 33a is stored in the hard disk 33 of the control device 30A.
- the desired phase pattern may be stored in the nonvolatile memory element 23 of the driving device 20A.
- the control device 30A has a role of providing the driving device 20A with a trigger signal used to generate a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal necessary for driving the phase modulation unit 10. .
- phase modulation unit 10 the drive device 20A, and the control device 30A each have a housing independent from each other.
- the phase modulation unit 10 and the driving device 20A may be housed in a common housing.
- all of the phase modulation unit 10, the drive device 20A, and the control device 30A may be housed in a common housing.
- the phase modulation unit 10 may further include means (for example, a fan or a Peltier element) that can control the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12.
- means for example, a fan or a Peltier element
- the temperature change range of the liquid crystal layer 12 can be reduced. Therefore, for example, a variation of several degrees C. with respect to the reference temperature T0 may be corrected by the temperature correction unit 25, and phase modulation caused by the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12. The amount variation can be corrected with higher accuracy.
- the temperature correction unit 25 corrects the control input value based on Expression (4).
- the relationship between the temperature change amount ⁇ and the phase modulation amount variation ⁇ may be nonlinear.
- the plurality of coefficients ⁇ 1 to ⁇ n may be the temperature change coefficients of the temperature change coefficient data 23b.
- the temperature correction unit 25 calculates the control input value S3 in which the influence of the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 is corrected using the following temperature correction formula (6) instead of the temperature correction formula (4) described above.
- T is the current temperature of the phase modulation unit 10
- T0 is the reference temperature (in one example, the temperature at the time of inspection) of the phase modulation unit 10
- S0 is a desired temperature at the reference temperature T0.
- This is a control input value for obtaining the phase modulation amount ⁇ .
- FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device 1B which is a first modification of the embodiment.
- the spatial light modulation device 1 ⁇ / b> B according to this modification includes a drive device 20 ⁇ / b> B and a control device 30 ⁇ / b> B as a voltage generation unit in addition to the phase modulation unit 10. Since the configuration of the phase modulation unit 10 is the same as the configuration of the phase modulation unit 10 of the above embodiment, detailed description thereof is omitted.
- the control device 30B is suitably realized by, for example, an electronic computer having the central processing unit 31, the memory 32, and the hard disk 33, as with the control device 30A of the above embodiment.
- the hard disk 33 stores surface distortion correction pattern data 33b and temperature change coefficient data 33c in addition to a desired phase pattern 33a.
- the surface distortion correction pattern data 33b is data corresponding to the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a of the above embodiment, and is formed on the surface of the first electrode 13 when circuit elements around the pixel electrode 13a are formed on the silicon substrate 11. This is data for correcting the generated surface distortion by the phase difference given by the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the temperature change coefficient data 33c is data corresponding to the temperature change coefficient data 23b of the above embodiment, and the change in the relationship between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode 13a and the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12. It is the data regarding the coefficient for correcting.
- the central processing unit 31 realizes an adding unit 32 a, a temperature correcting unit 32 b, and a temperature reading command unit 32 c by reading a predetermined program stored in the memory 32.
- the adder 32a reads the phase pattern 33a and the surface distortion correction pattern data 33b from the hard disk 33, and adds them to each other to generate a control input value S5.
- the temperature reading command unit 32c generates a signal Sr for requesting the driving device 20B to obtain data related to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12.
- the signal Sr is sent to the temperature sensor processing unit 28 of the driving device 20B via the communication unit 34.
- the temperature correction unit 32b reads the temperature change coefficient data 33c from the hard disk 33, receives data related to the current temperature of the phase modulation unit 10 from the drive device 20B, and determines a predetermined value for the control input value S5 based on these data. The operation is performed. This calculation is the same as the calculation performed by the temperature correction unit 25 in the above embodiment.
- the temperature correction unit 32b provides the calculated control input value S6 to the drive device 20B via the communication unit 34.
- the driving device 20B includes a communication unit 21, an input processing unit 22, a nonvolatile memory element 23, an LUT processing unit 26, a digital / analog conversion unit 27, and a temperature sensor processing unit 28. These configurations and operations are the same as those in the above embodiment. Note that the driving device 20B of this modification does not include the adding unit 24 and the temperature correcting unit 25 of the above embodiment, and the nonvolatile memory element 23 stores the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a and the temperature change coefficient data 23b. Not done. These elements are included in the control device 30B described above.
- FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a spatial light modulation method according to this modification.
- the spatial light modulation method and the operation of the spatial light modulation device 1B according to this modification will be described with reference to FIG.
- step S31 the phase pattern 33a and the surface distortion correction pattern data 33b stored in the hard disk 33 are read to the central processing unit 31, and these are added together to generate the control input value S5 (step S31).
- a temperature signal Stemp related to the current temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 detected by the temperature sensor 17 is sent to the temperature sensor processing unit 28, and the temperature value Ts indicated by the temperature signal Stemp is sent to the central processing unit via the communication unit 34.
- step S32 temperature acquisition step.
- this step S32 may be performed in parallel with the said step S31.
- step S33 correction calculation step
- step S34 The control input value S6 is transferred from the control device 30B to the drive device 20B (step S34).
- step S35 a predetermined calculation process is performed on the control input value S6 to generate a control input value S7 suitable for input to the digital / analog converter 27 (step S35).
- step S36 the analog voltage V for each pixel applied to each pixel of the phase modulation unit 10 is generated based on the control input value S7 in the digital / analog conversion unit 27 (step S36).
- step S37 voltage application step
- the inclination of the liquid crystal molecules 12 a changes according to the magnitude of the applied voltage V, and the refractive index changes.
- the phase distribution corresponding to the desired phase pattern 33a is spatially expressed, and the phase of the incident light is modulated (step S38).
- the temperature correction unit 32b corrects the control input value S5 using the temperature change coefficient, as in the above embodiment. Therefore, the variation of the phase modulation amount due to the temperature change of the liquid crystal layer 12 can be easily corrected. Further, the required storage capacity can be reduced, the manufacturing can be facilitated, and the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to the desired phase modulation amount can be increased.
- the LUT 23c is stored in the nonvolatile memory element 23 of the drive device 20B.
- the LUT may be stored in the hard disk 33 of the control device 30B.
- the LUT processing unit may be realized by the central processing unit 31 and the memory 32 of the control device 30B.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a spatial light modulation device 1C which is a second modification of the embodiment.
- the spatial light modulation device 1 ⁇ / b> C according to this modification includes a phase modulation unit 10 and a drive device 20 ⁇ / b> C as a voltage generation unit.
- the configuration of the phase modulation unit 10 is the same as the configuration of the phase modulation unit 10 of the above embodiment.
- the driving device 20 ⁇ / b> C has a control unit 29.
- the control unit 29 is preferably realized by, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), an electronic computer having a memory and a hard disk, or the like.
- the drive device 20C includes an input processing unit 22, a nonvolatile memory element 23, an adding unit 24, a temperature correcting unit 25, an LUT processing unit 26, a digital / analog converting unit 27, and a temperature sensor processing unit 28. .
- the input processing unit 22 generates a trigger signal Str for generating a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal based on the signal received from the control unit 29.
- the nonvolatile memory element 23 stores a desired phase pattern 23d in addition to the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a, the temperature change coefficient data 23b, and the LUT 23c.
- the phase pattern 23d corresponds to the phase pattern 33a in the above embodiment.
- the adder 24 reads the surface distortion correction pattern data 23a and the phase pattern 23d from the non-volatile storage element 23 and adds them together to generate a control input value S8 after the surface distortion correction.
- the adding unit 24 outputs the generated control input value S8 to the temperature correcting unit 25.
- the temperature correction unit 25 generates a control input value S9 by performing predetermined arithmetic processing on the control input value S8 based on the temperature change coefficient data 23b and the temperature value Ts obtained from the temperature sensor processing unit 28.
- the LUT processing unit 26 generates a control input value S10 suitable for input to the digital / analog conversion unit 27 by performing predetermined arithmetic processing on the control input value S9 using the LUT 23c.
- the digital / analog converter 27 generates an analog voltage V for each pixel applied to each pixel of the phase modulator 10 based on the control input value S10. These analog voltages V are output to the phase modulation unit 10 through the driving unit 27a and applied to each pixel electrode 13a (see FIG. 2).
- the temperature correction unit 25 corrects the control input value S ⁇ b> 8 using the temperature change coefficient, similarly to the above embodiment, so that the temperature of the liquid crystal layer 12 is Variations in the amount of phase modulation due to changes can be easily corrected. Further, the required storage capacity can be reduced, the manufacturing can be facilitated, and the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to the desired phase modulation amount can be increased.
- the spatial light modulation device and the spatial light modulation method according to the present invention are not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various other modifications are possible.
- the spatial light modulation device in the present invention is not limited to this, You may have the structure by which the pixel electrode is arrange
- the spatial light modulation device is a spatial light modulation device that modulates the phase of incident light for each of a plurality of pixels arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally.
- a liquid crystal layer that modulates the phase of incident light; (2) a temperature sensor that generates a temperature signal that is a signal corresponding to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer; and (3) a voltage that is provided for each of the plurality of pixels and generates an applied electric field.
- the voltage generation unit has storage means for storing in advance one or a plurality of coefficients included in a function representing a correlation between a temperature change amount with respect to a reference temperature of the liquid crystal layer and a variation amount of the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer. In order to correct the magnitude of the voltage, the temperature indicated by the temperature signal provided from the temperature sensor and one or more coefficients are used.
- the spatial light modulation device may be configured such that the function is a linear function and the number of coefficients is one.
- the voltage range is preferably limited to a predetermined range in which the function can be approximated as a linear function.
- the spatial light modulation device may be configured such that the function is an n-order function (n is an integer of 2 or more) and the number of coefficients is n.
- the liquid crystal layer that modulates the phase of the incident light according to the magnitude of the applied electric field and the plurality of pixels arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally are provided.
- a spatial light modulation method using a plurality of pixel electrodes for applying a voltage to generate a voltage to a liquid crystal layer (1) a temperature acquisition step of acquiring a temperature signal, which is a signal corresponding to the temperature of the liquid crystal layer, from a temperature sensor; (2) One or more coefficients included in a function representing a correlation between the temperature change amount with respect to the reference temperature of the liquid crystal layer and the variation amount of the phase modulation amount in the liquid crystal layer are stored in the storage unit.
- To the corrected voltage It has a configuration comprising a voltage application step of subjecting.
- the spatial light modulation method may be configured such that the function is a linear function and the number of coefficients is one.
- the voltage range is preferably limited to a predetermined range that can approximate the function as a linear function.
- the spatial light modulation method may be configured such that the function is an n-order function (n is an integer of 2 or more) and the number of coefficients is n.
- the present invention can be used as a spatial light modulation device and a spatial light modulation method that can reduce the required storage capacity, are easy to manufacture, and can increase the accuracy of the applied voltage value with respect to a desired phase modulation amount.
- SYMBOLS 1A-1C Spatial light modulation device, 10 ... Phase modulation part, 11 ... Silicon substrate, 12 ... Liquid crystal layer, 12a ... Liquid crystal molecule, 13, 14 ... Electrode, 13a ... Pixel electrode, 15 ... Glass substrate, 16 ... Spacer, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 17 ... Temperature sensor, 20A-20C ... Drive apparatus, 21 ... Communication part, 22 ... Input processing part, 23 ... Nonvolatile memory element, 23a, 33b ... Surface distortion correction pattern data, 23b, 33c ... Temperature change coefficient data, 23c ... LUT, 23d, 33a ... phase pattern, 24 ... adder, 25 ... temperature corrector, 26 ...
- LUT processor 27 ... digital / analog converter, 27a ... driving means, 28 ... temperature sensor processor, 30A, 30B ... Control device, 31 ... Central processing unit, 32 ... Memory, 32a ... Adder, 32b ... Temperature correction unit, 32c ... Temperature read command unit, 33 ... Hard disk 34 ... Communication unit 41 ... Basic database 50A ... Voltage generator 100 ... Polarization interferometer 101 ... Temperature controller 102 ... Half mirror 103 ... Lens 104 ... Analyzer 105 ... Polarizer 106 ... Light source, 107: light receiving element, A: applied voltage range, S1 to S10: control input value, Temp: temperature signal.
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φ=S×2π/255
を満たすように、位相変調量φの各数値と制御入力値S1との関係を定義する。この数式において、位相変調量φの各数値と対応する制御入力値S1とは、互いに線形の関係を有する。
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- 一次元もしくは二次元に配列された複数の画素毎に入射光の位相を変調する空間光変調装置であって、
印加電界の大きさに応じて前記入射光の位相を変調する液晶層と、
前記液晶層の温度に応じた信号である温度信号を生成する温度センサと、
前記複数の画素毎に設けられ、前記印加電界を発生させる電圧を前記液晶層に印加する複数の画素電極と、
前記複数の画素電極に前記電圧を提供する電圧生成部と
を備え、
前記電圧生成部が、前記液晶層の基準温度に対する温度変化量と、前記液晶層における位相変調量の変動量との相関を表す関数に含まれる一又は複数の係数を予め記憶している記憶手段を有しており、前記温度センサから提供された前記温度信号に示された温度と、前記一又は複数の係数とを使用して、前記電圧の大きさを補正するための演算を行う
ことを特徴とする、空間光変調装置。 - 前記関数が一次関数であり、前記係数の個数が一つであることを特徴とする、請求項1に記載の空間光変調装置。
- 前記電圧の範囲が、前記関数を一次関数として近似し得る所定範囲に限定されていることを特徴とする、請求項2に記載の空間光変調装置。
- 前記関数がn次関数(nは2以上の整数)であり、前記係数の個数がn個であることを特徴とする、請求項1に記載の空間光変調装置。
- 印加電界の大きさに応じて入射光の位相を変調する液晶層と、一次元もしくは二次元に配列された複数の画素毎に設けられ、前記印加電界を発生させる電圧を前記液晶層に印加する複数の画素電極とを用いる空間光変調方法であって、
前記液晶層の温度に応じた信号である温度信号を温度センサから取得する温度取得ステップと、
前記液晶層の基準温度に対する温度変化量と、前記液晶層における位相変調量の変動量との相関を表す関数に含まれる一又は複数の係数とを予め記憶している記憶手段から該一又は複数の係数を読み出し、前記温度信号に示された温度と、前記一又は複数の係数とを使用して、前記電圧の大きさを補正するための演算を行う補正演算ステップと、
前記複数の画素電極に補正後の前記電圧を提供する電圧印加ステップと
を含むことを特徴とする、空間光変調方法。 - 前記関数が一次関数であり、前記係数の個数が一つであることを特徴とする、請求項7に記載の空間光変調方法。
- 前記電圧の範囲が、前記関数を一次関数として近似し得る所定範囲に限定されていることを特徴とする、請求項8に記載の空間光変調方法。
- 前記関数がn次関数(nは2以上の整数)であり、前記係数の個数がn個であることを特徴とする、請求項7に記載の空間光変調方法。
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