Excited to share that our paper "Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning" is now published in Nature. Congrats Matt Saha and the team at @MIT-QPAI, @MITREcorp , @SandiaLabs , @Axiomatic_AI, University of Arizona, and CU Boulder.
This work introduces a NEMS-photonic beam scanning platform for a new generation of light engines with massive parallelism.
Key results:
• 68.6 mega-spots/s/mm² beam-scanning at CMOS-level voltages
• RGB video produced from a cross section equivalent to 2 iPhone pixels.
How is this possible? the number of distinct spatial optical modes modes is ~ Area/(λ/n_eff)²). Because our device scans the waveguide (tiny mode cross section), that mode density approaches the fundamental limit, which is ~ 2 OM higher than what are
normally considered ultra high resolution displays
MIT News: https://t.co/uZryizHvyP
Open access: https://t.co/iW2Pu2JMGi
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