Optical self-scanned arrays. Part 1: Principles of self-scanned arrays

On 16th January 1979, the IERE Components and Circuits Group organized a one-day colloquium on Optical Self-Scanned Arrays at the Royal Institution, London. As an experiment in reporting colloquium proceedings, Professor Beynon who chaired the meeting, asked all the contributors subsequently to produce shortened versions of their oral presentations for editing into a symposium on this important subject. In publishing this article the efforts of Professor Alan Pugh are gratefully acknowledged. As chairman of the Components and Circuits Group, Professor Pugh undertook the organization ofthe colloquium and had hoped to chair the day´s proceedings. He was prevented from doing so at the last moment by a national rail strike called for 16th January.