Thermo-optic variable blazed grating for beam steering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6715, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Johnson, Matthew T ^a   Seetharaman, Guna S ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam; Gratings; Phased arrays; Switching; Thermo optic

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; FRINGING FIELD; OPTICAL STEERING ANGLE; REFLECTION-MODE DEVICE;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL LINKS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; REMOTE SENSING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 42149153347     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.754188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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