Combined holographic optical trapping and optical image processing using a single diffractive pattern displayed on a spatial light modulator

Alexander Jesacher, Stefan Bernet, and Monika Ritsch-Marte

We demonstrate simultaneous holographic optical trapping and optical image processing using a single-phase diffraction pattern displayed on a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM). The ability of modern SLMs to provide multiorder phase shifts represents a degree of freedom that allows the calculation of diffraction patterns that act in precisely defined but different ways on light beams of different wavelengths. We exploit this property to calculate a single-phase hologram that shapes multiple optical traps at 785 nm while performing double-helix point spread function engineering at 532 nm. Both channels are independent to a large degree and have efficiencies of about 75% compared to the ideal diffractive patterns.

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