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High Capacity Digital Beam Steering Technology, Daniel James Hebert
High Capacity Digital Beam Steering Technology, Daniel James Hebert
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
A novel method is described in detail for steering light in many directions without moving mechanical parts. The method involves a combination of liquid crystal cells and polarizing beam splitters. The polarization at each beam splitter is controlled by applying a signal to its corresponding liquid crystal cell. A study of light steering techniques is described for efficient beam placement, in a line and plane. These techniques permit accurate, non-mechanical, beam steering limited by the response time of the liquid crystal cells. A theoretical limit to the number of discrete directions is described and closely approached for a one dimensional …