Real-time visualization of electromagnetic waves propagating in air using live electro-optic imaging technique.
Electromagnetic waves propagating in air are visually observed with phase evolution in real time by live electro-optic imaging technique. We show how geometrical and crystallographic arrangements of an electro-optic sensor plate enable the realization of the real-time visual observation of traveling 100-GHz electromagnetic waves. For this purpose, a generation technique for a 100-GHz optical local oscillator signal at 780 nm was newly developed, whose optical wavelength is suitable for the ultra-parallel RF electric field data acquisition by a Si-CMOS image sensor.
Kanno
Atsushi
A
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. kanno@nict.go.jp
Sasagawa
Kiyotaka
K
Shiozawa
Takahiro
T
Tsuchiya
Masahiro
M
D003199:Computer Systems; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007909:Lenses; D055617:Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055096:Optical Devices; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers