Integrated optical phased arrays for beam forming and steering

Y Guo, Y Guo, C Li, H Zhang, X Zhou, L Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Integrated optical phased arrays can be used for beam shaping and steering with a small
footprint, lightweight, high mechanical stability, low price, and high-yield, benefiting from the …

Si photonics for practical LiDAR solutions

X Sun, L Zhang, Q Zhang, W Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the article the authors discuss light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for automotive
applications and the potential roles Si photonics can play in practice. The authors review …

A monolithically integrated large-scale optical phased array in silicon-on-insulator CMOS

SW Chung, H Abediasl… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large-scale monolithic silicon nanophotonic phased array on a chip creates and
dynamically steers a high-resolution optical beam in free space, enabling emerging …

A nonuniform sparse 2-D large-FOV optical phased array with a low-power PWM drive

R Fatemi, A Khachaturian… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated optical phased arrays (OPAs) capable of adaptive beamforming and beam
steering enable a wide range of applications. For many of these applications, a large scale 2 …

Sub-wavelength-pitch silicon-photonic optical phased array for large field-of-regard coherent optical beam steering

Y Zhang, YC Ling, K Zhang, C Gentry, D Sadighi… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper reports on large field-of-regard, high-efficiency, and large aperture active optical
phased arrays (OPAs) for optical beam steering in LIDAR systems. The fabricated 5 mm …

Review of photonic integrated optical phased arrays for space optical communication

J He, T Dong, Y Xu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A review of photonic integrated optical phased array (OPA) for space optical communication
is presented. We review and summarize the typical works of the photonic integrated OPAs …

Sparse aperiodic arrays for optical beam forming and LIDAR

T Komljenovic, R Helkey, L Coldren, JE Bowers - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We analyze optical phased arrays with aperiodic pitch and element-to-element spacing
greater than one wavelength at channel counts exceeding hundreds of elements. We …

Design and fabrication of a SiN-Si dual-layer optical phased array chip

P Wang, G Luo, Y Xu, Y Li, Y Su, J Ma, R Wang… - photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A SiN-Si dual-layer optical phased array (OPA) chip is designed and fabricated. It combines
the low loss of SiN with the excellent modulation performance of Si, which improves the …

Investigation and demonstration of a high-power handling and large-range steering optical phased array chip

L Zhang, Y Li, Y Hou, Y Wang, M Tao, B Chen, Q Na… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The optical power handling of an OPA scanning beam determines its targeted detection
distance. So far, a limited number of investigations have been conducted on the restriction of …

Multi-micron silicon photonics platform for highly manufacturable and versatile photonic integrated circuits

AJ Zilkie, P Srinivasan, A Trita… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe and characterize a multi-micron silicon photonics platform that was designed to
combine performance, power efficiency, manufacturability, and versatility for integrated …