Scalable Optical Phased Array with Sparse 2D Aperture

R. Fatemi, A. Khachaturian, A. Hajimiri

A scalable OPA with sparse 2D aperture is presented, achieving the highest reported grating-lobe-free FOV-to-beamwidth ratio (16°/0.8°). A PWM generator chip is designed to drive compact phase shifters with row-column layout to reduce power consumption.