Millimeter wave imaging at up to 40 frames per second using an optoelectronic photo-injected Fresnel zone plate lens antenna

Duncan A. Robertson; Thomas F. Gallacher; Rune Søndenå; David G. Macfarlane

doi:10.1117/12.2223026

12 May 2016 Millimeter wave imaging at up to 40 frames per second using an optoelectronic photo-injected Fresnel zone plate lens antenna

Duncan A. Robertson, Thomas F. Gallacher, Rune Søndenå, David G. Macfarlane

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Proceedings Volume 9830, Passive and Active Millimeter-Wave Imaging XIX; 983004 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223026
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Optoelectronic methods are promising for rapid and highly reconfigurable beam steering across the microwave to the terahertz range. In particular, the photo-injected Fresnel zone plate antenna (piFZPA) offers high speed, wide angle, precise beam steering with good beam quality, to enable video rate millimeter wave imagery with no moving parts. We present a piFZPA demonstrator based on a commercial digital light projector (DLP) and high power laser which achieves steering rates up to 17,500 beams per second at 94 and 188 GHz. We also demonstrate radar imaging at 94 GHz at frame rates of 40 Hz (2D PPI) and 7 Hz (3D volumetric).

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Duncan A. Robertson, Thomas F. Gallacher, Rune Søndenå, and David G. Macfarlane "Millimeter wave imaging at up to 40 frames per second using an optoelectronic photo-injected Fresnel zone plate lens antenna", Proc. SPIE 9830, Passive and Active Millimeter-Wave Imaging XIX, 983004 (12 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223026

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