A new beam steering concept: Risley gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7466, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Oh, Chulwoo ^a   Kim, Jihwan ^a   Muth, John F ^a   Escuti, Michael J ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Diffraction; Polarization grating; Risley prism

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; BEAM-STEERING; CONTINUOUS STEERING; DIRECTION COSINE; FIELD-OF-REGARD; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRATING PERIODS; IN-LINE; OUTPUT BEAM; POLARIZATION GRATING; POLARIZATION GRATINGS; PRISMATIC ELEMENTS; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; RISLEY PRISM; STEERING ANGLES; THIN LIQUIDS; THIN PLATE; WALK-OFF;

DIFFRACTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PRISMS; ROTATION; WAVEFRONTS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77955909632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.828005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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