• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 11, B23 (2022)
Zhizhang Wang1、†, Wange Song1、†, Yuxin Chen, Bin Fang, Jitao Ji, Haoran Xin, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li*
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  • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulations, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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    Zhizhang Wang, Wange Song, Yuxin Chen, Bin Fang, Jitao Ji, Haoran Xin, Shining Zhu, Tao Li. Metasurface empowered lithium niobate optical phased array with an enlarged field of view[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): B23 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Integrated optical phased arrays (OPAs) have attracted significant interest to steer laser beams for applications including free-space communications, holography, and light detection and ranging. Although many methods have been proposed to suppress grating lobes, OPAs have also been limited by the trade-off between field of view (FOV) and beamforming efficiency. Here, we propose a metasurface empowered port-selected OPA (POPA), an OPA steered by port selection, which is implemented by an aperiodic waveguide array with an average pitch less than the wavelength and phase controlled by coupling among waveguides. A metasurface layer above the POPA was designed to increase wide FOV steering, aliasing-free by polarization division. As a result, we experimentally demonstrate beam scanning over a ±41.04°×7.06° FOV. The aliasing-free POPA with expanded FOV shows successful incorporation of the waveguide-based OPA technique with an emerging metasurface design, indicating much exploration in concepts for integrated photonic devices.
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    Zhizhang Wang, Wange Song, Yuxin Chen, Bin Fang, Jitao Ji, Haoran Xin, Shining Zhu, Tao Li. Metasurface empowered lithium niobate optical phased array with an enlarged field of view[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): B23
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