Title :
Two-dimensional electronic beam steering in coherently-coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays
Author :
Siriani, Dominic F. ; Sulkin, Joshua D. ; Choquette, Kent D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate two-dimensional electronic beam steering using only the in-phase mode of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array. The steering is highly-controllable, and the interference visibility is typically very high.
Keywords :
Beam steering; Biomedical optical imaging; Interference; Laser modes; Optical arrays; Optical surface waves; Photonic crystals; Semiconductor laser arrays; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
