Farshad Serat Nahaei

System modeling of a photonic integrated circuit–based coherent imager using pupil-plane sampling

Conventional imaging systems rely on large bulk optics to collect and focus light, resulting in significant con- straints on mass, volume, alignment, and scalability. Most of this mass and volume is taken up by a meter-size primary mirror and meters of propagation to form an image, which can only be sensed with intensi...