Design and Construction of an Active Alignment Demonstrator for a Free-Space Optical Interconnect

Authors

G. C. Boisset
B. Robertson
Harvard Scott Hinton, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

7

Issue

6

Publisher

IEEE

Publication Date

1995

First Page

676

Last Page

678

Abstract

An x-y active alignment system based on Risley beam steerers is described. The demonstrator features a quadrant detector which detects the misalignment error between the center of a spot of light and the center of the quadrant detector. This misalignment error is then used by a new algorithm to calculate the rotational displacement required for the two Risley beam steerers to steer the spot of light to the center of the quadrant detector. The experimental results indicate that any spot misaligned by up to 160 μm on the quadrant detector will be systematically centered by the demonstrator system.

Comments

Originally published by IEEE. Publisher's PDF can be accessed through Photonics Technology Letters.

Recommended Citation

G. C. Boisset, B. Robertson, H. S. Hinton, "Design and Construction of an Active Alignment Demonstrator for a Free-space Interconnect," Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1995, pp. 676-679.