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公开(公告)号：US20220006267A1
公开(公告)日：2022-01-06
申请号：US17478670
申请日：2021-09-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Alfredo Bismuto , Mark Alan Arbore , Ross M. Audet
Abstract: A laser chip including a plurality of stripes is disclosed, where a laser stripe can be grown with an initial optical gain profile, and its optical gain profile can be shifted by using an intermixing process. In this manner, multiple laser stripes can be formed on the same laser chip from the same epitaxial wafer, where at least one laser stripe can have an optical gain profile shifted relative to another laser stripe. For example, each laser stripe can have a shifted optical gain profile relative to its neighboring laser stripe, thereby each laser stripe can emit light with a different range of wavelengths. The laser chip can emit light across a wide range of wavelengths. Examples of the disclosure further includes different regions of a given laser stripe having different intermixing amounts.
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公开(公告)号：US20210302313A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-30
申请号：US17346390
申请日：2021-06-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Matthew A. Terrel
Abstract: An illuminator/collector assembly can deliver incident light to a sample and collect return light returning from the sample. A sensor can measure ray intensities as a function of ray position and ray angle for the collected return light. A ray selector can select a first subset of rays from the collected return light at the sensor that meet a first selection criterion. In some examples, the ray selector can aggregate ray intensities into bins, each bin corresponding to rays in the collected return light that traverse within the sample an estimated optical path length within a respective range of optical path lengths. A characterizer can determine a physical property of the sample, such as absorptivity, based on the ray intensities, ray positions, and ray angles for the first subset of rays. Accounting for variations in optical path length traversed within the sample can improve accuracy.
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公开(公告)号：US20210199576A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-01
申请号：US16650804
申请日：2018-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Matthiew A. Terrel , Jason Pelc
IPC: G01N21/49
Abstract: Described here are optical sampling architectures and methods for operation thereof. An optical sampling architecture can be capable of emitting a launch sheet light beam towards a launch region and receiving a detection sheet light beam from a detection region. The launch region can have one dimension that is elongated relative to another dimension. The detection region can also have one dimension elongated relative to another dimension such that the system can selectively accept light having one or more properties (e.g., angle of incidence, beam size, beam shape, etc.). In some examples, the elongated dimension of the detection region can be greater than the elongated dimension of the launch region. In some examples, the system can include an outcoupler array and associated components for creating a launch sheet light beam having light rays with different in-plane launch positions and/or in-plane launch angles.
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公开(公告)号：US10801950B2
公开(公告)日：2020-10-13
申请号：US15751095
申请日：2016-08-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Miikka M. Kangas , Mark Alan Arbore , David I. Simon , Michael J. Bishop , James W. Hillendahl , Robert Chen
IPC: G01N21/27 , G01N21/35 , G01N21/47 , G01J3/32 , G01J3/36 , G01J3/433 , G01J3/447 , G01J3/02 , G01J3/42 , G01N21/49 , G01N21/21
Abstract: This relates to systems and methods for measuring a concentration and type of substance in a sample at a sampling interface. The systems can include a light source, optics, one or more modulators, a reference, a detector, and a controller. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of accounting for drift originating from the light source, one or more optics, and the detector by sharing one or more components between different measurement light paths. Additionally, the systems can be capable of differentiating between different types of drift and eliminating erroneous measurements due to stray light with the placement of one or more modulators between the light source and the sample or reference. Furthermore, the systems can be capable of detecting the substance along various locations and depths within the sample by mapping a detector pixel and a microoptics to the location and depth in the sample.
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公开(公告)号：US10788368B1
公开(公告)日：2020-09-29
申请号：US16144960
申请日：2018-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jason Pelc , Mark Alan Arbore
Abstract: Disclosed here is a system including a multi-wavelength integrated light source having one or more heaters. The system can comprise a substrate including a light source section, the heater(s), and a plurality of sections. The sections can include multiple materials, where the material for a given section can be based on one or more targeted criteria. For example, one section can have a targeted criteria of being optically transparent. Another section can have a targeted criteria of providing mechanical support, and another section can have a targeted criteria of being a thermal insulator. In some instances, openings in the substrate can be formed and filled with one or more materials to form a window (e.g., a section having a targeted criteria of being optically transparent) and a thermal isolator (e.g., a section having a targeted criteria of being thermally insulating).
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公开(公告)号：US10274426B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-30
申请号：US15717651
申请日：2017-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Matthew A. Terrel
Abstract: An illuminator/collector assembly can deliver incident light to a sample and collect return light returning from the sample. A sensor can measure ray intensities as a function of ray position and ray angle for the collected return light. A ray selector can select a first subset of rays from the collected return light at the sensor that meet a first selection criterion. In some examples, the ray selector can aggregate ray intensities into bins, each bin corresponding to rays in the collected return light that traverse within the sample an estimated optical path length within a respective range of optical path lengths. A characterizer can determine a physical property of the sample, such as absorptivity, based on the ray intensities, ray positions, and ray angles for the first subset of rays. Accounting for variations in optical path length traversed within the sample can improve accuracy.
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公开(公告)号：US20250067418A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-27
申请号：US18942202
申请日：2024-11-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Matthew A. Terrel
Abstract: Configurations for a photonics assembly design and methods for mitigating coherent noise thereof are disclosed. The photonics assembly may include a set of light sources, an optical subsystem that may include a set of optical elements, and a diffusing element. The light emitted by the set of light sources may be different wavelengths and the light may be de-cohered by a phase shifter before being received by the set of optical elements. The diffusing element may be moveable and may be capable of repeating the same positions or set of positions for each beam of light emitted by the set of light sources. By combining the coherent noise mitigation techniques of the moveable diffusing element and the de-cohered light, the photonics system may provide an illumination profile with a specific spatial profile and angular profile on the sample that allows reliable measurement of the sample and coherent noise mitigation.
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公开(公告)号：US20250027813A1
公开(公告)日：2025-01-23
申请号：US18908626
申请日：2024-10-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Thomas C. Greening , Yongming Tu
IPC: G01J3/02 , G01J3/10 , G01J3/18 , G01J3/32 , G01J3/45 , G02B6/293 , G02B6/42 , G02B27/10 , G02F1/21
Abstract: Configurations for light source modules and methods for mitigating coherent noise are disclosed. The light source modules may include multiple light source sets, each of which may include multiple light sources. The light emitted by the light sources may be different wavelengths or the same wavelength depending on whether the light source module is providing redundancy of light sources, increased power, coherent noise mitigation, and/or detector mitigation. In some examples, the light source may emit light to a coupler or a multiplexer, which may then be transmitted to one or more multiplexers. In some examples, the light source modules provide one light output and in other examples, the light source modules provide two light outputs. The light source modules may provide light with approximately zero loss and the wavelengths of light may be close enough to spectroscopically equivalent respect to a sample and far enough apart to provide coherent noise mitigation.
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公开(公告)号：US12206032B2
公开(公告)日：2025-01-21
申请号：US17385813
申请日：2021-07-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Matthew T. Morea , Miikka M. Kangas , Romain F. Chevallier , Tomas Sarmiento
IPC: H01L31/0304 , H01L27/144 , H01L31/0203 , H01L31/0232
Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detector includes an InP substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface; a first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the first surface and configured to absorb a first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a set of one or more buffer layers stacked on the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and configured to absorb at least some of the first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the set of one or more buffer layers and configured to absorb a second set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; and an immersion condenser lens formed on the second surface and configured to direct electromagnetic radiation through the InP substrate and toward the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and the second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber.
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公开(公告)号：US20240077679A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18389080
申请日：2023-11-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mark Alan Arbore , Alfredo Bismuto
CPC classification number: G02B6/2938 , G02B6/29307 , G02B6/29308 , G02B6/2931 , H04J14/0205
Abstract: Methods and systems concerning demultiplexing and multiplexing light in optical multiplexing systems are disclosed herein. An optical multiplexing system may include a number of light emitters and a number of associated waveguides. Light emitted from each of the number of light emitters may travel through the associated waveguide and may enter a multiplexer, where a multiplexing operation may occur. At least one of the number of light emitters may be configured to emit light with multiple wavelengths. Such a light emitter may further be associated with a demultiplexer to demultiplex the light with multiple wavelengths before the light reaches a multiplexer. After a demultiplexing operation, the demultiplexed light may be directed to multiple waveguides and the multiple waveguides may guide the demultiplexed light to a multiplexer.
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