Focusing Receiver (Focal Image Plane Array)

9008-069

 

Diagram illustrates how image of star and ET's transmitter falls on different parts of a focal plane array.

This diagram shows the mixing of the local-oscillator beam with the incoming light from two stars, whose images fall on different pixels in the two-dimensional photodetector array.

 

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