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US 12,468,208 B2Granted
System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering
AssigneeExciting Technology LLC
InventorsAbtin Ataei, Paul F. McManamon
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Abstract
An example system includes a bulk steering crystal apparatus having a first lens face and a second concave face. The example bulk steering crystal apparatus further includes a number of steering portions interposed between the first lens face and the second concave face, where each of the steering portions includes a bulk substrate portion including an electro-optical material and a corresponding high-side electrode electrically coupled to the corresponding one of the number of steering portions.
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A system, comprising:
- a bulk steering crystal based steering device, comprising:
- a first lens face and a second concave emissions face, the second concave emissions face comprising a curvature along at least one axis of steering, the curvature comprising a linear progression, a spherical progression, an ellipsoid progression, or a hyperboloid progression;
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- a bulk steering crystal comprising:
- a plurality of steering portions interposed between the first lens face and the second concave emissions face, wherein each of the plurality of steering portions comprises:
- a bulk substrate portion comprising a solid electro-optical material;
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- a corresponding high-side electrode electrically coupled to the corresponding one of the plurality of steering portions.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving a source electromagnetic (EM) beam at a first lens face of a bulk steering crystal based steering device;
- applying voltages to high side electrodes of a plurality of steering portions that include a solid electro-optical material and are interposed between the first lens face and a second concave emissions face, thereby initiating steering of the source EM beam;
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- impinging the source EM beam on the second concave emissions face, thereby emitting a steered EM beam.
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