David Phillips

@photonphillips.bsky.social

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Leading the Structured Light Lab, University of Exeter, UK. Research focussed on optics & photonics: wavefront shaping, computational imaging, complex photonics, optical tweezers, laser writing, structured light.

An incoming light beam bounces multiple times from a phase-only light modulator, whose micrometre-scale mirrors piston vertically to impose a varying 2D delay to the reflected light. As light travels and reflects through multiple mirror height profiles, each reflection transformation builds upon the last, progressively reshaping light to produce an output beam with tailored properties. Image credit: José C. A. Rocha.