High-performance optical beam steering with nanophotonics

S Lin, Y Chen, ZJ Wong - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The ability to control and steer optical beams is critical for emerging technologies. Among
these are light detection and ranging (LiDAR), laser display, free space communication, and …

State of the art of underwater active optical 3D scanners

M Castillón, A Palomer, J Forest, P Ridao - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Underwater inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) operations are being increasingly
robotized in order to reduce safety issues and costs. These robotic systems rely on vision …

Photonic-crystal lasers with high-quality narrow-divergence symmetric beams and their application to LiDAR

M Yoshida, M De Zoysa, K Ishizaki… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for smart mobility of robots,
agricultural and construction machines, and autonomous vehicles. However, current LiDAR …

Amphilight: Direct air-water communication with laser light

CJ Carver, Z Tian, H Zhang, KM Odame… - … : Mobile Computing and …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The underwater world is still largely unexplored yet surveying and monitoring submerged
sites is fundamental for many applications, including archaeology, biology, and disaster …

Lens-based integrated 2D beam-steering device with defocusing approach and broadband pulse operation for Lidar application

C Li, X Cao, K Wu, X Li, J Chen - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose an integrated two-dimensional beam-steering device based on an on-chip
silicon-nitride switch/emitter structure and off-chip lens for light detection and ranging (Lidar) …

Catch me if you can: Laser tethering with highly mobile targets

CJ Carver, H Schwartz, Q Shao, N Shade… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Conventional wisdom holds that laser-based systems cannot handle high mobility due to the
strong directionality of laser light. We challenge this belief by presenting Lasertag, a generic …

Accelerated electrowetting-based tunable fluidic lenses

P Zhao, Y Li, H Zappe - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
One of the limitations in the application of electrowetting-based tunable fluidic lenses is their
slow response time. We consider here two approaches for enhancing the response speed of …

Metasurface doublet-integrated bidirectional grating antenna enabling enhanced wavelength-tuned beam steering

WB Lee, CS Im, C Zhou, B Bhandari, DY Choi… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate an optical phased-array-based bidirectional grating antenna
(BDGA) in silicon nitride waveguides. The BDGA is integrated with a miniaturized all …

Fabrication and characterization of a two-dimensional individually addressable electrowetting microlens array

SD Gilinsky, M Zohrabi, WY Lim, OD Supekar… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a two-dimensional, individually tunable electrowetting microlens array
fabricated using standard microfabrication techniques. Each lens in our array has a large …

[HTML][HTML] 液晶包层波导技术研究进展

刁志辉, 毕泽坤, 范维方, 蔚云慧… - Chinese Journal of Liquid …, 2024 - opticsjournal.net
摘要液晶包层波导以波导为载体, 以液晶为工作物质, 包层中的液晶通过倏逝波调控芯层中的
波导模式. 相比于传统液晶器件, 液晶包层波导能够巧妙解耦光线调制距离与液晶层厚度 …