Liquid Crystal LIDAR: Solid State Waveguide Beamsteerers For 3D Automotive Vision
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is currently developing a package of technologies for enabling laser radar (lidar) systems that will be used to provide 3D vision for self-driving cars. In these systems, an infrared laser beam will be swept across a field of view using a liquid crystal waveguide (LCW) beamsteerer that contains no moving parts. The simplicity of these non-mechanical designs leads to significant advantages in cost, size, and performance. This presentation will include a discussion of the design, testing, and implementation of LCW beamsteerers in an automotive lidar system. It will also include a brief description of various potential lidar architectures based on LCW devices.
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Michael Ziemkiewicz , Analog Devices, Inc.
Mike Ziemkiewicz did a B.S. (Physics) at The University of Pittsburgh. After that, he completed a physics PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he used spectroscopic techniques to study chemical reaction dynamics in various gas-phase and liquid-phase systems. This was followed by a postdoc at Berkeley, where he used ultrafast laser techniques and high harmonic generation to study highly-excited electronic states in helium nanodroplets. After that, he returned to Colorado to develop liquid crystal waveguide technology, first at Vescent Photonics, and then as part of Analog Devices, Inc.
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