Continuous time-of-flight ranging using a MEMS diffractive subwavelength period grating (de)modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 1827-1829

  Roels, Joris ^a   Van der Tempel, Ward ^b   Van Nieuwenhove, Daniël ^b   Grootjans, Riemer ^b   Kuijk, Maarten ^b   van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3 D imaging; Microelectromechanical devices; Optical modulation; Time of flight (TOF)

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIXING; MODULATION; NEGATIVE IONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RANGE FINDING; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

3-D IMAGING; CONTINUOUS TIMES; DIFFRACTIVE GRATINGS; FUTURE WORKS; KEY COMPONENTS; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MIXING; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTICAL-; SUBWAVELENGTH PERIOD GRATINGS; SUBWAVELENGTH PERIODS; TIME OF FLIGHTS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 56049109058     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2004348     Document Type: Article

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