Universitat Jaume I 1 article published in JoVE Engineering Shaping the Amplitude and Phase of Laser Beams by Using a Phase-only Spatial Light Modulator Miguel Carbonell-Leal1, Omel Mendoza-Yero1 1Institut de Noves Tecnologies de la Imatge (INIT), Universitat Jaume I We show how to encode the complex field of laser beams by using a single phase element. A common-path interferometer is employed to mix the phase information displayed into a phase-only spatial light modulator to finally retrieve the desired complex field pattern at the output of an optical imaging system.
