Compact 4 cm aperture transmissive liquid crystal optical phased array for free-space optical communications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5892, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Lin, Yu Hua ^a   Mahajan, Milind ^a   Taber, Donald ^a   Wen, Bing ^a   Winker, Bruce ^a  

^a ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Dual frequency liquid crystal; Electro optics; Free space optical communications; Optical phased array

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; LINEAR ARRAYS; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 29344447516     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.618093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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