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Everything about Retroreflector
Device to reflect radiation back to its source
A retroreflector is a device or surface that reflects light or other radiation back to its source with minimum scattering. This works at a wide range of angle of incidence, unlike a planar mirror, which does this only if the mirror is exactly perpendicular to the wave front, having a zero angle of incidence. Being directed, the retroflector's reflection is brighter than that of a diffuse reflector. Corner reflectors and cat's eye reflectors are the most used kinds. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: RetroreflectorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Modulating Retroreflector Based Free Space Optical Link for UAV-to-Ground CommunicationsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Development of a laser scanning position remote sensor for a large space structure simulatorThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Planar metasurface retroreflectorCited 471 times
- Go sideways: Corner reflectorA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Satellite laser rangingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A retroreflective device or surface.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Planar metasurface retroreflector
An omnidirectional retroreflector based on the transmutation of dielectric singularities
Open-path dual-comb spectroscopy to an airborne retroreflector
Large-aperture multiple quantum well modulating retroreflector for free-space optical data transfer on unmanned aerial vehicles
Angular‐Adaptive Reconfigurable Spin‐Locked Metasurface Retroreflector
0.2 λ0 Thick Adaptive Retroreflector Made of Spin‐Locked Metasurface
Paraxial ray analysis of a cat's-eye retroreflector
Performance Study of a Large Monolithic LYSO PET Detector With Accurate Photon DOI Using Retroreflector Layers
🆕 Influential since 2022
Modulating Retroreflector Based Free Space Optical Link for UAV-to-Ground Communications
Broadband Spin‐Locked Metasurface Retroreflector
Low-profile and compact retroreflector enabled by a wide-angle and high-efficiency metalens
Retroreflector With Polarization Isolation Based on Nonreciprocal Metasurface
Planar, wide-band omnidirectional retroreflector using metal-only transmitarray structure for TE and TM polarizations
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Development of a laser scanning position remote sensor for a large space structure simulatorDenis Gilles Laurin · 1986
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