Near-infrared digital micromirror acts as a spatial light modulator

Acting as a spatial light modulator (SLM) to steer near-infrared (NIR) light, the Texas Instruments (TI) DLP4500NIR WXGA near-infrared digital micromirror device (DMD) is now stocked by Mouser. This capability allows for the creation of patterns with speed, precision, and efficiency. These feature high resolution in a compact form factor. The DLP4500NIR DMD is often combined with a single element detector to replace expensive InGaAs array-based detector designs. This leads to high performance, and cost-effective portable solutions for applications such as spectrometers, chemical analysis, process analyzers, laboratory equipment, dedicated analyzers, compressive sensing (single-pixel NIR cameras), 3D biometrics, machine vision, infrared scene projection, laser marking, optical choppers, microscopes and optical networking.