Retrocommunication utilizing electroabsorption modulators and non-mechanical beam steering

• A novel retrocommunication link utilizing reflective multiplequantum well (MQW) optical modulators and nonmechanical beamsteering and tracking is demonstrated. Large aperture reflective MQWmodulators using AlGaAs/GaAs are optimized and manufactured. Themodulators exhibit a contrast ratio larger than 4:1 and a modulationbandwidth of 10 MHz. Nonmechanical beam steering and tracking arestudied using nematic liquid crystal (NLC) spatial light modulators(SLMs). The communication link is comprised of a retromodulating arraywith four MQW modulators and a transceiver using a NLC SLM for beamsteering and tracking. Transfer of audio, real-time image data and pseudorandombit sequences over 100-m range while tracking the movingretromodulator is shown. The link is capable of transferring data at approximately8 Mbps.

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