Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical deflection device and LIDAR apparatus
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Application No.: US16071895Application Date: 2017-01-11
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Publication No.: US11079541B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Toshihiko Baba , Fumio Koyama
- Applicant: National University Corporation Yokohama National University
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama
- Assignee: National University Corporation Yokohama National University
- Current Assignee: National University Corporation Yokohama National University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-010844 20160122
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/000625 WO 20170111
- International Announcement: WO2017/126386 WO 20170727
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; G02B6/122 ; G02B6/124 ; G02B6/34 ; G02F1/295 ; G02B6/125 ; G01N21/49 ; G01S7/481 ; G02B6/12

Abstract:
An optical deflection device that achieve both high beam quality and wide angular range of deflection and compatibility with an optical integration technology of silicon photonics. The optical deflection device is a silicon photonics device including a periodic structure of a refractive index. The optical deflection device includes two configurations, which are (1) a configuration in which an optical propagation part where light propagates is a microstructure formed on silicon, and (2) a configuration in which the microstructure constituting the optical propagation part includes a periodic structure that generates slow light and a periodic structure that radiates light. The microstructure formed on the silicon of (1) makes it possible to employ the optical integration technology of silicon photonics and form the optical deflection device. The two periodic structures of (2) make it possible to form a light beam with high beam quality and a wide angular range of deflection.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190033522A1 OPTICAL DEFLECTION DEVICE AND LIDAR APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-31
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