Liquid crystal-based beam steering devices can provide electronic beam scanning to angles above 1 milliradian, sub-microradian beam pointing accuracy, as well as wave-front correction to maintain output optical beam quality. The liquid crystal technology effort will be summarized, and the potential application of the resulting devices to NASA space-based scenarios will be described.
Liquid Crystal-based Beam Steering Technologies for NASA Applications
Great Lakes Photonics Symposium ; 2006 ; Dayton, OH, United States
2006-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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