These movies show actual fan-field diffraction patterns produced by Boulder Nonlinear Systems 128x128 pixel nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator and recorded with a video camera. A QuickTime plugin, which can be downloaded for free from Apple is required to view these movies.

Running man (320x240 (615kB), 640x480 (1.05 MB))
5 scanning spots (320x240 (456kB), 640x480 (1.98 MB))
spot array (320x240 (916kB), 640x480 (2.28 MB))