Note: high capacity digital laser beam steering system

D Hebert; P Cantu; C Washington; O Ajala; M Feldman

doi:10.1063/1.3659949

Note: high capacity digital laser beam steering system

Rev Sci Instrum. 2011 Nov;82(11):116101. doi: 10.1063/1.3659949.

Authors

D Hebert¹, P Cantu, C Washington, O Ajala, M Feldman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.

PMID: 22129017
DOI: 10.1063/1.3659949

Abstract

The combination of liquid crystal cells with polarizing cube beam splitters has been used to direct a beam of light to multiple directions. The polarization at each beam splitter is controlled by applying a signal to a corresponding liquid crystal cell. Ten cascaded stages have deflected a HeNe laser beam to 1024 digitally selectable angles.