Squint compensation for a broadband RF array spectral imager using spatial spectral holography

Friso Schlottau; Benjamin Braker; Kelvin Wagner

doi:10.1117/12.559689

15 October 2004 Squint compensation for a broadband RF array spectral imager using spatial spectral holography

Friso Schlottau, Benjamin Braker, Kelvin Wagner

Proceedings Volume 5546, Imaging Spectrometry X; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559689
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We present a proof-of-concept optical experiment that demonstrates the ability to record squinted broadband RF images formed by a Fourier beamforming phased-array antenna and subsequent squint correction using spatial spectral holography. A cryogenically cooled inhomogeneously broadened absorber (Tm3+:YAG) acts as a spectrally selective holographic medium which records the squinted RF image, covering a wide RF bandwidth (approaching 20 GHz) with resolution of approximately 1 MHz. Subsequently, a frequency-swept laser can read out the squinted image while a magnification-compensating motorized zoom lens synchronously corrects the magnification due to beam squint. Time-integration the image on a CCD detector array produces a squint-compensated broadband RF image, while detection with a MHz bandwidth detector can produce spectral estimates for all sources recorded with this imaging system.

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Friso Schlottau, Benjamin Braker, and Kelvin Wagner "Squint compensation for a broadband RF array spectral imager using spatial spectral holography", Proc. SPIE 5546, Imaging Spectrometry X, (15 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559689

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