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September 26, 2016

Generating Vector Beams With a Programmable Spatial Light Modulator

SSU Alum Katie Badham
Lockheed Martin

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

SSU Alum Katie Badham of Lockheed Martin will discuss her graduate school research experience using a polarization diffraction grating (PDG) programmed onto a spatial light modulator in an optical system using lasers to simultaneously generate six different polarization states of light.

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