Optical implementation of a time-domain beam former
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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Optics Letters
|September 10, 2009
Abstract:
We report on an optical implementation of a time-domain beam former that uses a low-cost, low-power, twodimensional spatial light modulator (liquid-crystal television) to generate eight beams from eight sensors. The optical architecture can be classified as a vector-matrix multiplier. The vectors are formed from sampled sensor values by a low-power total-internal-reflection electro-optic device, and the readout is done with a linear photodiode array detector. The experimental response of the broadside beam is given.
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