The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

Alan X Zhou

Benjamin F Lane

Steven Jay Spector

Michael G Moebius

Julian A Brown

Hannah Anne Clevenson

Lucas David Benney

A compressive/transform imager comprising a lens array positioned above input ports for collecting light into the input ports, waveguides routing the light from the input port to waveguide mixing regions (e.g. multi-mode interference couplers), and detectors for receiving outputs of the waveguide mixing regions.

Multi-mode interference coupler-based flat compressive and transform imager

A multi-beam optical phased array on a single planar waveguide layer or a small number of planar waveguide layers enables building an optical sensor that performs much like a significantly larger telescope. Imaging systems use planar waveguides created using micro-lithographic techniques. These imagers are variants of 'phased arrays,' common and familiar from microwave radar applications. However, there are significant differences when these same concepts are applied to visible and infrared light.

Photonic imaging array

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Alan X Zhou