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 …

Free-space applications of silicon photonics: A review

CY Hsu, GZ Yiu, YC Chang - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has recently expanded its applications to delivering free-space emissions
for detecting or manipulating external objects. The most notable example is the silicon …

Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer

S Corsetti, M Notaros, T Sneh, A Stafford… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Imagine if it were possible to create 3D objects in the palm of your hand within seconds
using only a single photonic chip. Although 3D printing has revolutionized the way we create …

Actively controllable beam steering optical wireless communication (OWC) using integrated optical phased array (OPA)

CW Chow, YC Chang, SI Kuo, PC Kuo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We put forward and present a demonstration of an actively controlled optical beam steering
optical wireless communication (OWC) system based on an integrated actively steerable …

Optical tweezing of microparticles and cells using silicon-photonics-based optical phased arrays

T Sneh, S Corsetti, M Notaros, K Kikkeri… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated optical tweezers have the potential to enable highly-compact, low-cost, mass-
manufactured, and broadly-accessible optical manipulation when compared to standard …

Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits

SM Kim, ES Lee, KW Chun, J Jin, MC Oh - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Optical phased array (OPA) devices are being actively investigated to develop compact solid-
state beam scanners, which are essential in fields such as LiDAR, free-space optical links …

Free-space beam shaping and steering based on a silicon optical phased array

W Ren, Q Liang, J Feng, H Liu, J Hu, S Yuan… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we present a method for free-space beam shaping and steering based on a
silicon optical phased array, which addresses the theoretical limitation of traditional bulk …

CMOS-compatible optical phased array powered by a monolithically-integrated erbium laser

J Notaros, N Li, CV Poulton, Z Su, MJ Byrd… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
An advanced CMOS-compatible 300--wafer silicon-photonics platform is introduced that
consists of a silicon layer with eight doping masks, two silicon-nitride layers, three metal and …

Highly efficient optical antenna with small beam divergence in silicon waveguides

P Ginel-Moreno, D Pereira-Martín, A Hadij-ElHouati… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical antennas are key components in optical phased arrays for light detection and
ranging technology requiring long sensing range and high scanning resolution. To achieve …

A review of semiconductor-based monolithic optical phased array architectures

H Hashemi - IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semiconductor-based monolithic optical phased arrays (OPA) enable optical beam-steering
for lidar and 3D imaging, free-space optical communications, projection and 3D …