A beam-steering device (100) for spatial steering of a
light beam comprises a
waveguide array (10) being arranged on a substrate (50) and comprising a
waveguide array input (12), multiple waveguides (14-1, 14-2, . . . , 14-i) and a
waveguide array output (16), wherein the multiple waveguides (14-1, 14-2, . . . , 14-i) are adapted for simultaneously guiding light from the
waveguide array input (12) to the
waveguide array output (16) and for forming a
light beam downstream of the
waveguide array output (16) by superimposing the light guided by the waveguides (14-1, 14-2, . . . , 14-i), a phase shifter device (18) being arranged for applying controlled phase shifts to the light guided in each of the waveguides (14-1, 14-2, . . . , 14-i), and a
grating array (22) including at least one patterned
grating in
optical communication with the waveguide array output (16), the
grating array (22) being configured to radiate the
light beam out of the beam-steering device (100) to a surrounding, wherein the waveguide array output (16) is arranged such that the light beam is formed downstream of the waveguide array output (16) with a
main lobe and side lobes and with a
beam angle Φ in a plane of the substrate (50), that is determined by the controlled phase shifts applied to the light by the phase shifter device (18) and a
wavelength of the light, a slab propagation region (20) is arranged between the waveguide array output (16) and the grating array (22) such that the
main lobe of the light beam is angularly relayed to the grating array (22) and the side lobes of the light beam leave lateral sides of the slab propagation region (20) before reaching the grating array (22), and the grating array (22) is arranged to radiate the light beam out of the beam-steering device (100) with a first
angular direction with respect to the substrate (50), that is determined by the
beam angle Φ. Furthermore, a method of beam-steering a light beam is described.