WO1999048197A3 - Piezoelectric difraction grating light steering device - Google Patents

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WO1999048197A3
WO1999048197A3 PCT/US1999/005694 US9905694W WO9948197A3 WO 1999048197 A3 WO1999048197 A3 WO 1999048197A3 US 9905694 W US9905694 W US 9905694W WO 9948197 A3 WO9948197 A3 WO 9948197A3
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grating
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Robert Arnold
Scott Bloom
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Trex Communications Corp
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    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
    • G02B5/18—Diffraction gratings
    • G02B5/1828—Diffraction gratings having means for producing variable diffraction

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A piezoelectric diffraction grating steering device including a piezoelectric substrate having an attached or integrally formed diffraction grating. When an electric field is applied to the piezoelectric substrate, the piezoelectric actuator stretches the grating, changing the periodicity of the grating, thereby changing the angle of diffraction of the grating. The preferred grating is a high efficiency reflection type grating which diffracts a maximum amount of light into the first order mode, minimizing the amount of light in the zero order and higher order modes. The invention may be used in any application in which fine control over the angle of diffraction of a light beam is required, and may have an adjustment rate in excess of 100 KHz. One application is as a beam steering element in a free-space laser communication system.
PCT/US1999/005694 1998-03-16 1999-03-16 Piezoelectric difraction grating light steering device WO1999048197A2 (en)

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