Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lidar systems based on tunable optical metasurfaces
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Application No.: US17403115Application Date: 2021-08-16
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Publication No.: US11644546B2Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- Inventor: Gleb M. Akselrod , Prasad Padmanabha Iyer , Ross D. Uthoff
- Applicant: Lumotive, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Lumotive, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Lumotive, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: PCFB
- Agent Justin K. Flanagan
- Main IPC: G01S7/481
- IPC: G01S7/481 ; G01S7/484 ; G02F1/29 ; G01S7/486 ; G01S17/88 ; G02B1/00

Abstract:
An example optical transceiver system, such as a solid-state light detection and ranging (lidar) system, includes a tunable, optically reflective metasurface to selectively reflect incident optical radiation as transmit scan lines at transmit steering angles between a first steering angle and a second steering angle. In some embodiments, a feedback element, such as a volume Bragg grating element, may lock a laser to narrow the band of optical radiation. A receiver may include a tunable, optically reflective metasurface for receiver line-scanning or a two-dimensional array of detector elements forming a set of discrete receive scan lines. In embodiments incorporating a two-dimensional array of detector elements, receiver optics may direct optical radiation incident at each of a plurality of discrete receive steering angles to a unique subset of the discrete receive scan lines of detector elements.
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