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No lens required! Caltech researchers develop chip that turns cell phones into projectors

FP Archives • March 12, 2014, 18:32:49 IST
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How about impressing your client with a presentation that is projected on a conference room wall via your cell phone? Here comes a technology that can let your phone becomes a projector - showing a bright, clear image onto a wall or a big screen. A new light-bending, silicon chip has been developed by researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that acts as a lens-free projector and could one day end up in your cell phone.

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No lens required! Caltech researchers develop chip that turns cell phones into projectors

How about impressing your client with a presentation that is projected on a conference room wall via your cell phone? Here comes a technology that can let your phone becomes a projector - showing a bright, clear image onto a wall or a big screen.   A new light-bending, silicon chip has been developed by researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that acts as a lens-free projector and could one day end up in your cell phone. The new chip eliminates the need for bulky and expensive lenses and bulbs as used in traditional projectors.   “This chip uses a so-called integrated optical phased array (OPA) to project the image electronically with only a single laser diode as light source and no mechanically moving parts,” explained Ali Hajimiri, Thomas G. Myers professor of electrical engineering at Caltech.   The beauty of this thing is that these chips are small, can be made at a very low cost and opens up lots of interesting possibilities. Hajimiri and his team bypassed traditional optics by manipulating the coherence of light - a property that allows the researchers to ‘bend’ the light waves on the surface of the chip without lenses or the use of any mechanical movement. “By changing the relative timing of the waves, you can change the direction of the light beam,” Hajimiri added.   Using a series of pipes for the light - called phase shifters - the OPA chip slows down or speeds up the timing of the waves, thus controlling the direction of the light beam. The timed light waves are then delivered to tiny array elements within a grid on the chip. The light is then projected from each array in the grid, the individual array beams combining coherently in the air to form a single light beam and a spot on the screen. As the electronic signal rapidly steers the beam left, right, up, and down, the light acts as a very fast pen, drawing an image made of light on the projection surface.   “The new thing about our work is really that we can do this on a tiny, one-millimeter-square silicon chip. We can do it very rapidly to form images since we phase-shift electronically in two dimensions,” said Behrooz Abiri, a graduate student in Hajimiri’s team.   “In the future, this can be incorporated into a cell phone. Since there is no need for a lens, you can have a phone that acts as a projector all by itself,” Hajimiri told the gathering at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference in San Francisco recently.   IANS

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