1. DTU Electro, Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark 2. Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Kapeldreef 75, Leuven 3001, Belgium 3. Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing and Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing 314000, China 4. Intelligent Optics and Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Jiaxing 314000, China
An optical phased array (OPA) is a promising non-mechanical technique for beam steering in solid-state light detection and ranging systems. The performance of the OPA largely depends on the phase shifter, which affects power consumption, insertion loss, modulation speed, and footprint. However, for a thermo-optic phase shifter, achieving good performance in all aspects is challenging due to trade-offs among these aspects. In this work, we propose and demonstrate two types of energy-efficient optical phase shifters that overcome these trade-offs and achieve a well-balanced performance in all aspects. Additionally, the proposed round-spiral phase shifter is robust in fabrication and fully compatible with deep ultraviolet (DUV) processes, making it an ideal building block for large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Using the high-performance phase shifter, we propose a periodic OPA with low power consumption, whose maximum electric power consumption within the field of view is only 0.33 W. Moreover, we designed Gaussian power distribution in both the azimuthal (ϕ) and polar (θ) directions and experimentally achieved a large sidelobe suppression ratio of 15.1 and 25 dB, respectively.
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