Lcwg steered laser transmitter and situational awareness sensor with wavelength conversion

A laser device, comprising:

• a laser configured to generate a collimated spot-beam at an input wavelength along an optical axis;
• a liquid crystal waveguide (LCWG) along the optical axis responsive to command signals to steer the collimated spot-beam at the input wavelength in two-dimensions about the optical axis;
• a fixed mirror including first and second different conic section oriented along the optical axis that redirect the collimated spot-beam to scan a two-dimensional field-of-view (FOV);
• a first annular cylindrical shaped optical element with a first optical non-linear material oriented along an axis coincident with the optical axis, said optical element configured such that the collimated spot-beam redirected from said first conic section passes through the first optical non-linear material to convert the input wavelength to a different first output wavelength while preserving the steering of the collimated spot-beam over the FOV;
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• a controller configured to issue command signals to the LCWG to steer the collimated spot-beam to said first and second different conic sections to scan a multispectral spot-beam at the first output wavelength and a second output wavelength over the two-dimensional FOV.