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Optical beamsteering using integrated optical modulators

Optical beamsteering using integrated optical modulators
Optical beamsteering using integrated optical modulators
A device has been designed and fabricated to demonstrate the principle of using the interference pattern of a number of coherent optical sources to form and steer an optical beam. Steering of the beam can be accomplished by varying the relative phase of the constituent sources. The effect of relative source phase variation and source separation variation has beers considered and optimized using a multiple source interference model. In this case the constituent sources are the outputs of integrated optical waveguides, excited by a common optical source to maintain relative coherence. In order to demonstrate the principle of beamsteering, a device with two constituent sources (waveguides) has been fabricated, and the resultant output interference pattern has been laterally translated by varying the phase of the output of one waveguide with respect to the other, via a novel optical phase modulator.
0733-8724
2259-2263
Jackson, S.M.
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Reed, G.T.
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Tang, C.K.
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Evans, A.G.R.
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Clark, J.
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Aveyard, C.
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Namavar, F.
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Jackson, S.M.
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Tang, C.K.
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Clark, J.
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Jackson, S.M., Reed, G.T., Tang, C.K., Evans, A.G.R., Clark, J., Aveyard, C. and Namavar, F. (1997) Optical beamsteering using integrated optical modulators. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 15 (12), 2259-2263. (doi:10.1109/50.643551).

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Abstract

A device has been designed and fabricated to demonstrate the principle of using the interference pattern of a number of coherent optical sources to form and steer an optical beam. Steering of the beam can be accomplished by varying the relative phase of the constituent sources. The effect of relative source phase variation and source separation variation has beers considered and optimized using a multiple source interference model. In this case the constituent sources are the outputs of integrated optical waveguides, excited by a common optical source to maintain relative coherence. In order to demonstrate the principle of beamsteering, a device with two constituent sources (waveguides) has been fabricated, and the resultant output interference pattern has been laterally translated by varying the phase of the output of one waveguide with respect to the other, via a novel optical phase modulator.

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Published date: December 1997
Organisations: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology

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Local EPrints ID: 251183
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/251183
ISSN: 0733-8724
PURE UUID: 3c926ded-7233-457b-8213-840304ffa2ca

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Date deposited: 15 Oct 1999
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 21:36

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Author: S.M. Jackson
Author: G.T. Reed
Author: C.K. Tang
Author: A.G.R. Evans
Author: J. Clark
Author: C. Aveyard
Author: F. Namavar

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