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AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorsChristopher Casimir Brough, Sean P. Kilcoyne, Richard Wahl, Thomas Yengst, Justin Gordon Adams Wehner
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A scalable independent unit cell device architecture may include a phase-shifting element and a phase shift driver both integrated within the unit cell device. The phase shift driver may be coupled to the phase-shifting element and the phase shift driver may independently control the phase-shifting element to produce an optical beam having a desired phase. The unit cell device may further include an optical antenna that outputs the beam having the desired phase. The unit cell device may be formed as an opto-electronic hybrid optimized to leverage direct bond hybridization (DBH) to attach an electronic integrated circuit wafer to a side of a photonic integrated circuit wafer. The resulting unit cell device (i.e., 24 microns) may tightly integrate individual element-level phase control, which may be implemented within large-scale two-dimensional photonic arrays with hemispherical beam steering.
A unit cell device including one or more attached layers, comprising:
An array of unit cell devices, each of the unit cell devices comprising:
A method of independently controlling optical beam phase within a unit cell device, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.