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9 March 2020 Scalable tiled silicon-photonic 2D wavelength-steered optical beam LIDAR apertures (Conference Presentation)
Miloš A. Popović, Nathan Dostart, Bohan Zhang, Anatol N. Khilo, Michael Brand, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Deniz Onural, Daniel Feldkhun, Kelvin H. Wagner
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Proceedings Volume 11285, Silicon Photonics XV; 112850I (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2550195
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
We describe a scalable, tiled optical beam steering aperture based on integrated silicon photonic circuit beam steering tiles. A novel beam steering tile design, the serpentine optical phased array (SOPA), enables high fill factor tiled apertures, very low control complexity, an entirely passive aperture, large field of view, and extremely fast beam steering. The design provides low size, weight, and power, making it scalable to large-area (cm-to-wafer scale) apertures. We show experimental demonstrations of SOPA tiles steering an optical beam in two dimensions (2D) enabling a full 2D raster scan using wavelength sweep alone, and initial tiling and lidar demonstrations.
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Miloš A. Popović, Nathan Dostart, Bohan Zhang, Anatol N. Khilo, Michael Brand, Kenaish Al Qubaisi, Deniz Onural, Daniel Feldkhun, and Kelvin H. Wagner "Scalable tiled silicon-photonic 2D wavelength-steered optical beam LIDAR apertures (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11285, Silicon Photonics XV, 112850I (9 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2550195
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KEYWORDS
Phased array optics

LIDAR

Integrated optics

Beam steering

Silicon

Semiconducting wafers

Silicon photonics

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