11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Developing Optical Phased Array sensing for the Breakthrough Starshot propulsion system

12 Dec 2022, 12:00
15m
Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room E3

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) ANZCOP: Astrophotonics Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Speaker

Paul Sibley

Description

We present the key considerations in our design for using optical interferometry to phase-lock optical phased arrays with up to 100 million emitters, needed for the ambitious proposed Breakthrough Starshot mission.

Author

Co-authors

Chathura Bandutunga (Australian National University) Prof. Michael Ireland (Australian National University)

Presentation materials