Energy-efficient integrated silicon optical phased array

H Qiu, Y Liu, X Meng, X Guan, Y Ding, H Hu - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2023 - Springer
An optical phased array (OPA) is a promising non-mechanical technique for beam steering
in solid-state light detection and ranging systems. The performance of the OPA largely …

Bidirectional high sidelobe suppression silicon optical phased array

H Qiu, Y Liu, X Meng, X Guan, Y Ding, H Hu - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
An optical phased array (OPA), the most promising non-mechanical beam steering
technique, has great potential for solid-state light detection and ranging systems …

Design study of a large-angle optical scanning system for MEMS LIDAR

Y Pang, K Zhang, Z Bai, Y Sun, M Yao - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
MEMS-based LIDAR has the advantages of fast-scanning, simple structure, small volume,
and light weight, which make it a hot topic for 3D imaging. In order to overcome the limited …

Benchmarking automotive LiDAR performance in arctic conditions

M Kutila, P Pyykönen, M Jokela… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work shows and analyzes the LiDAR performance in real-world heavy winter conditions
captured in Northern Europe. We review how low temperatures, salted roads and turbulent …

Novel measures for thermal management of silicon photonic optical phased arrays

PAK Yepez, U Scholz, JN Caspers… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics has become a promising technology for fabrication of compact, highly
integrated systems. When dealing with phase sensitive silicon photonic components …

Radial sub-aperture coherence method used to achieve beam steering with high precision and stability

C Wang, Z Peng, Y Liu, S Li, Z Zhao, W Chen… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Sub-aperture coherence (SAC) algorithm, which is based on the classical phase modulation
method called variable period grating (VPG), was usually used to control liquid crystal …

Energy-efficient Silicon Optical Phased Array with Ultra-sparse Nonuniform Spacing

H Qiu, Y Liu, X Meng, X Guan, Y Ding… - … Conference on Optical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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CMOS-compatible measures for thermal management of phase-sensitive silicon photonic systems

PA Krochin-Yepez, U Scholz, A Zimmermann - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
To date, several photonic applications have been demonstrated without considerable
thermal management efforts. However, in phase-sensitive photonic applications, thermal …

Quantitative error analysis for non-mechanical phase-controlled beam steering based on symmetrical radial sub-aperture coherence algorithm

CM Wang, W Chen, ZW Zhao, QQ Mu, ZH Peng… - Liquid …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Based on the fundamental of traditional Sub-aperture coherence (SAC) algorithm, Radial
Sub-aperture coherence (RSAC) and Symmetrical Radial Sub-aperture coherence (SRSAC) …

Modular open systems architecture for optical networks in spacecraft

J Lyke, C Peters, D Buckley… - Open Architecture/Open …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper describes an architecture intended to support all-optical signaling and routing to
and through spacecraft. The approach is based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing …