A geophone subarray beam-steering process

Broadband Beam Steering

A solid-state broadband beam deflector is described. This non-mechanical system steers spatially coherent broad band light to a common location in the far field. The components include a liquid crystal grating and achromatic Fourier transformer. The liquid crystal grating employs a polarization modulation scheme which produces a wavelength independent phase shift. The achromatic Fourier transfo...

Steering plasmon beam from a point source.

We extend the phase modulation method by in-plane diffractions from plane wave incidence to point source of surface plasmon polariton (SPP). A well-defined SPP focus is successfully realized from a point source under the diffraction by a carefully designed nanohole array, which is easy to layout in the future integrated optical circuits. With this method, the SPP Airy beam and finite plane wave...

Magneto-optic Laser Beam Steering

High-resolution beam steering using microlens arrays.

Imaging or beam-steering systems employing a periodic array of microlenses or micromirrors suffer from diffraction problems resulting from the destructive interference of the beam segments produced by the array. Simple formulas are derived for beam steering with segmented apertures that do not suffer from diffraction problems because of the introduction of a moving linear phase shifter such as ...

Nonlinear beam steering by fractional vortex dipoles

Propagation of optical beams in nonlinear media NLM has been a subject of continuing interest for more than 4 decades due to the possibility for creation of reconfigurable waveguides through the intensity-dependent refractive index change 1,2 . Such optically induced waveguides can guide weak signal beams and pulses 3,4 , which motivates the investigation of novel techniques for manipulation of...