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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2021
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Gerald P. Uyeno, Tucson, AZ (US);
Benn H. Gleason, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sean D. Keller, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mark K. Lange, Tucson, AZ (US);
Eric Rogala, Tucson, AZ (US);
Vanessa Reyna, Tucson, AZ (US);
Craig O. Shott, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jon E. Leigh, Tucson, AZ (US);
Garret A. Odom, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A beam steering architecture for an optical sensor is based upon a pair of Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Micro-Mirror Arrays (MMAs) and a fold mirror. The MEMS MMAs scan both primary and secondary FOR providing considerable flexibility to scan a scene to provide not only active imaging (to supplement passive imaging) but also simultaneously allowing for other optical functions such as establishing a communications link, providing an optical transmit beam for another detection platform or determining a range to target. A special class of MEMS MMAs that provides a 'piston' capability in which the individual mirrors may translate enables a suite of optical functions to 'shape' the optical transmit beam.