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8 June 2024 Reconfigurable metasurface optics at NASA LaRC towards space image sensing
Hyun Jung Kim
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Abstract
Reconfigurable optical metasurfaces are rapidly emerging as a major frontier in photonics research, development, and applications. They promise compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient reconfigurable optical systems with unprecedented performance and functions that can be dynamically defined on-demand. Space applications represent an emerging area in which these characteristics are highly prized. The ability to dynamically tune optical functions through selective modulation of electromagnetic waves is crucial to the advancement of a variety of sensing applications, from imaging spectrometers to light detection and ranging (LiDAR). This presentation introduces a reconfigurable metasurface optic project led by a research team at NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC) since 2019. It covers advances in phase change material-based reconfigurable optics, performance data on reliability enhancement of photonic devices, image sensing system architectures, and mission concepts enabled through these advances.
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Hyun Jung Kim "Reconfigurable metasurface optics at NASA LaRC towards space image sensing", Proc. SPIE PC13030, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications XI, PC1303006 (8 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3011685
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KEYWORDS
Image enhancement

LIDAR

Electromagnetic radiation

Modulation

Phase shift keying

Photonic devices

Photonics

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