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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Jason Auxier, Falls Church, VA (US);
Christopher Dunay, Pomfret, MD (US);
Myron R. Pauli, Fairfax, VA (US);
Jason Auxier, Falls Church, VA (US);
Christopher Dunay, Pomfret, MD (US);
Myron R. Pauli, Fairfax, VA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A non-mechanical optical beam steering device includes one or more polarization gratings (PG) coupled to one or more Steerable Electro-Evanescent Optical Refractors (SEEOR). It provides the coarse steering advantage of the PG and also the continuous fine steering advantage of the SEEOR. The result is far less complexity, size, weight, and cost over the alternative non-mechanical beam steering approaches as well as considerably less complexity, size, weight, cost, scanning-time, and mechanical breakdown over the more traditional gimbaled mirrors commonly used.