Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrostatic-type variable diffractive light modulator, which includes lower micromirrors that are provided on a glass substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and actuates upper micromirrors that are spaced apart from the substrate by an electrostatic actuating method, thus allowing the upper and lower micromirrors to diffract incident light entering a lower portion of the substrate, and a method of manufacturing the electrostatic-type variable diffractive light modulator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable grating diffractive light modulator, which actuates lower reflecting plates of a lower reflecting array by a piezoelectric actuating method, and includes an upper reflecting array that is spaced apart from the lower reflecting array and attached to a lower surface of a substrate that is made of a light transmissive material and covers the lower reflecting array, so that the light modulator reflects incident light transmitted through the substrate and thereby produces diffractive light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a spatial light modulator using a near-field. The spatial light modulator includes a light permeable substrate which has a predetermined first refractive index and allows incident light passing through a side thereof from an external light source to permeate therethrough. A near-field forming member has a second refractive index smaller than the first refractive index, and is formed on the other side of the light permeable substrate to achieve total reflection of the incident light to form the near-field. Actuating elements each have a third refractive index larger than the second refractive index, and are formed on the other side of the light permeable substrate to be moved close to or away from the near-field, thereby transforming the near-field.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diffractive micromirror and a method of producing the same. More particularly, the present invention pertains to a diffractive thin-film piezoelectric micromirror, which is operated in a piezoelectric operation manner to assure excellent displacement, operation speed, reliability, linearity, and low voltage operation, and a method of producing the same. The diffractive thin-film piezoelectric micromirror includes a silicon substrate on which a recess is formed to provide an air space to the center thereof, and a piezoelectric mirror layer having a band shape, which is attached to the silicon substrate along both ends of the recess at both ends thereof while being spaced from the bottom of the recess at a center portion thereof and which includes a thin-film piezoelectric material layer to be vertically movable when voltage is applied to the piezoelectric material layer, and thus diffracts an incident light beam.