Beam Steering with Segmented Annular Arrays

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 ...

Fluidic beam steering in parasitically coupled patch antenna arrays

Beam steering via peak power decay in nonlinear waveguide arrays

We report the experimental observation and theoretical analysis of a novel beam-steering effect in periodic waveguide arrays that arises from the interplay between discrete diffraction, Kerr nonlinearity and any mechanism that effectively weakens the nonlinear part of the beam. In this regime the propagation direction shows increased sensitivity to the input angle and for a certain angular rang...

Approximation of Bessel Beams with Annular Arrays

1 Abstract — It is shown that the limited-diffraction Bessel beam of order zero can be generated by a transducer with equal-area division of elements and with a fixed prefocus, i.e. conventional transducers used in medical imaging equipment. The element division implies that the scaling parameter must be chosen to contain the first lobe of the Bessel function in the first element. In addition t...

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...