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Yes, they do non-mechanical beam steering: > They also have the potential to be much more robust because of the lack of moving parts, with a non-mechanical bea
by neolefty 10y ago
Yes, they do non-mechanical beam steering:
> They also have the potential to be much more robust because of the lack of moving parts, with a non-mechanical beam steering 1,000 times faster than what is currently achieved in mechanical lidar systems.
The LIDAR chips don't use visible light, but the article talks about it as a future project:
> We are also developing visible light phased arrays with applications such as Li-Fi and holography that can be seen by the human eye.
- regularfry 10y agoIt's a very simple, and very clever mechanism, too. My first guess was that they were going to use piezo mechanisms to squish cavities, but heat is even simpler.