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Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits
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, biophotonics, etc. Based on the unique nature of perfluorinated polymers, we propose a polymer waveguide OPA with th...
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author | Kim, Sung-Moon Lee, Eun-Su Chun, Kwon-Wook Jin, Jinung Oh, Min-Cheol |
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description | 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, biophotonics, etc. Based on the unique nature of perfluorinated polymers, we propose a polymer waveguide OPA with the advantages of low driving power and high optical throughput. Unlike silicon photonic OPAs, the polymer OPAs enable sustainable phase distribution control during beam scanning, which reduces the burden of beamforming. Moreover, by incorporating a tunable wavelength laser comprising a polymer waveguide Bragg reflector, two-dimensional beam scanning is demonstrated, which facilitates the development of laser-integrated polymeric OPA beam scanners. |
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spelling | pubmed-81344402021-05-25 Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits Kim, Sung-Moon Lee, Eun-Su Chun, Kwon-Wook Jin, Jinung Oh, Min-Cheol Sci Rep Article 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, biophotonics, etc. Based on the unique nature of perfluorinated polymers, we propose a polymer waveguide OPA with the advantages of low driving power and high optical throughput. Unlike silicon photonic OPAs, the polymer OPAs enable sustainable phase distribution control during beam scanning, which reduces the burden of beamforming. Moreover, by incorporating a tunable wavelength laser comprising a polymer waveguide Bragg reflector, two-dimensional beam scanning is demonstrated, which facilitates the development of laser-integrated polymeric OPA beam scanners. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8134440/ /pubmed/34012058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90120-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Kim, Sung-Moon Lee, Eun-Su Chun, Kwon-Wook Jin, Jinung Oh, Min-Cheol Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title | Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title_full | Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title_fullStr | Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title_full_unstemmed | Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title_short | Compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
title_sort | compact solid-state optical phased array beam scanners based on polymeric photonic integrated circuits |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34012058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90120-x |
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