MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS): TI's DLP chip powers more than picoprojectors

摘要

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based digital-light-processing (DLP) technology from Texas Instruments (TI; Dallas, TX) is finding its way into many more arenas than just well-known picoprojector applications--so many in fact that this year's Photonics West 2010 MOEMS-MEMS Conference 7596 was almost entirely devoted to DLP and other digital-micromirror-device (DMD)-based applications. In addition to display applications and dynamic speckle reduction, several other medical and industrial DLP applications are emerging. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), TI, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD), and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX) are collaborating on a hyperspectral imaging system with a DLP-based light source from Optronic Laboratories (Orlando, FL) that can rapidly analyze biological tissues using reflectance spectroscopy.