Ultra-fast speed, low grating lobe optical beam steering using unequally spaced phased array technique

Optics Communications

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-46

  Ruffin, Paul ^b  

^a Shizhuo)   (United States)

^b US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

^c Fang)   (United States)

Author keywords

Grating lobes; Ladar; Large scale displays; Optical beam steering; Optical phased array; Optics communications

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION;

LIGHT EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL BEAM STEERING; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY; PHASE ELEMENTS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 37849186635     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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