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- Patent Title: Non-imaging lens assembly design for efficient power coupling from multimode fiber to small-area photodetectors
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Application No.: US16818183Application Date: 2020-03-13
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Publication No.: US11054580B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Andrei Kazmierski , Nam-hyong Kim , Devin Brinkley , Baris Ibrahim Erkmen
- Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Botos Churchill IP Law
- Main IPC: G02B6/36
- IPC: G02B6/36 ; G02B6/32 ; F21V8/00 ; G02B9/04 ; G02B27/09

Abstract:
An optical communication device is provided that includes a first lens having a first surface and a second surface, a second lens having a third surface and a fourth surface, an optical fiber configured to output light including a plurality of ray bundles, and a photodetector located at the fourth surface of the second lens. The first lens is configured to cause the light output from the optical fiber to form an image at an image plane located at the third surface of the second lens. The second lens is configured to cause subsets of the ray bundles received at the third surface of the second lens to intersect or overlap at the photodetector in a smaller cross-sectional area than at the third surface of the second lens.
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