| Paper Abstract and Keywords |
| Presentation |
2023-03-17 14:05
[Invited Talk]
Liquid-Crystal Integrated Optical Phased Array for Adaptive Beam-Steering LiDAR
Kazuki Nakamura, Kenji Narumi, kohei Kikuchi, Yumiko Kato, Akira Hashiya, Takaiki Nomura, Masahiko Tsukuda, Yoshiki Sasaki, Kazuya Hisada, Yasuhisa Inada (Panasonic) |
| Abstract |
(in Japanese) |
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| (in English) |
On-chip beam steering devices have been widely investigated for automotive and industrial LiDAR applications. We proposed a liquid crystal (LC) tunable antenna consists of a LC core sandwiched by distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). The device performs a LC-tunable beam control in a second axis in addition to a one-dimensional optical phased array (1D-OPA) steering, thereby achieving 2D beam steering without being restricted by mechanical periodic motion. By using this characteristic, an adaptive irradiation LiDAR can be realized to measure the region of interest at an arbitrary timing.
In this work, the protype LiDAR with the LC tunable antenna was constructed and demonstrated to track and measure the distance to a person recognized by a camera. |
| Keyword |
(in Japanese) |
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| (in English) |
Optical phased array / Bragg-reflector waveguide / Liquid crystal / LiDAR / / / / |
| Reference Info. |
ITE Tech. Rep., vol. 47, no. 13, IDY2023-17, pp. 15-18, March 2023. |
| Paper # |
IDY2023-17 |
| Date of Issue |
2023-03-10 (IDY) |
| ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 1342-6893 Online edition: ISSN 2424-1970 |
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