Boulder Nonlinear Systems - Technology in a New Light

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Boulder Nonlinear Systems (BNS) designs, manufactures, and sells standard and custom light control solutions. Spatial Light Modulators, Polarization Rotators and Optical Shutters are offered for beam forming, beam steering, biotechnology, microscopy, military/civil defense, phase/polarization control, pulse shaping, wavefront analysis/testing, and other applications.

Research & development Products & components

Due to its longstanding technical strength in developing advanced light control techniques and devices, BNS has the capabilities to integrate non-mechanical beam control approaches into a variety of sensor packages and laboratory instruments. We are growing our technology base to meet evolving application requirements, serving our customers with an orientation toward complete system level solutions.

Recent advancements in SLM technology include:

- No Phase Droop
Increased time-stability using proprietary high frame rate addressing techniques (more...)

- Increased Efficiency
maximizing optical efficiency by applying dielectric mirror overcoat to approach 100% fill factor performance (more...)

- Narrow phase wraps = maximum use of spatial resolution
Elimination of pixel-to-pixel crosstalk enabling optimum use of the complete x-y format, resulting in the highest possible resolution (more...)

- Phase / Amplitude / or Both
Application-specific design engineering and customization to deliver solutions in applications requiring phase only, complex amplitude, sub-millisecond (analog) amplitude, and polarization-independent systems (more...)