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Multilayer Dielectric Transmissive Optical Phase Modulator

TBMG-29306

11/01/2004

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A multilayer dielectric device has been fabricated as a prototype of a low-loss, low-distortion, transmissive optical phase modulator that would provide as much as a full cycle of phase change for all frequency components of a transmitted optical pulse over a frequency band as wide as 6.3 THz. Arrays of devices like this one could be an alternative to the arrays of mechanically actuated phase-control optics (adaptive optics) that have heretofore been used to correct for wave-front distortions in highly precise optical systems. Potential applications for these high-speed wave-front-control arrays of devices include agile beam steering, optical communications, optical metrology, optical tracking and targeting, directional optical ranging, and interferometric astronomy.

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"Multilayer Dielectric Transmissive Optical Phase Modulator," Mobility Engineering, November 1, 2004.
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Nov 1, 2004
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TBMG-29306
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