• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 5, A66 (2022)
Aroutin Khachaturian*, Reza Fatemi, and Ali Hajimiri
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  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.437518 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Aroutin Khachaturian, Reza Fatemi, Ali Hajimiri. Achieving full grating-lobe-free field of view with low-complexity co-prime photonic beamforming transceivers[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(5): A66 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Integrated photonic active beamforming can significantly reduce the size and cost of coherent imagers for LiDAR and medical imaging applications. In current architectures, the complexity of photonic and electronic circuitry linearly increases with the desired imaging resolution. We propose a novel photonic transceiver architecture based on co-prime sampling techniques that breaks this trade-off and achieves the full (radiating-element-limited) field of view (FOV) for a 2D aperture with a single-frequency laser. Using only order-of-N radiating elements, this architecture achieves beamwidth and sidelobe level (SLL) performance equivalent to a transceiver with order-of-N2 elements with half-wavelength spacing. Furthermore, we incorporate a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) row–column drive methodology to reduce the number of required electrical drivers for this architecture from order of N to order of N. A silicon photonics implementation of this architecture using two 64-element apertures, one for transmitting and one for receiving, requires only 34 PAM electrical drivers and achieves a transceiver SLL of -11.3 dB with 1026 total resolvable spots, and 0.6° beamwidth within a 23°×16.3° FOV.

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    Aroutin Khachaturian, Reza Fatemi, Ali Hajimiri. Achieving full grating-lobe-free field of view with low-complexity co-prime photonic beamforming transceivers[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(5): A66
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