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公开(公告)号:US12217885B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US18219853
申请日:2023-07-10
Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
Inventor: Nam-Hyong Kim , Andrei Kazmierski , Paul Epp
IPC: H04B10/00 , C01G39/00 , C01G55/00 , G02B6/42 , H01B1/22 , H01B1/24 , H01M4/131 , H01M4/36 , H01M4/485 , H01M4/505 , H01M4/525 , H01M4/58 , H01M4/62 , H01M10/052 , G02B27/30 , H01M4/02
Abstract: A method of calibrating a collimating lens system includes transmitting, using an optical transmitter, a beam out of an optical fiber and through a collimating lens of the collimating lens system. The beam is reflected off a perfect flat mirror positioned at an output of the collimating lens and back towards the collimating lens, and received, via the collimating lens, at a power meter connected to the optical fiber. The method also includes adjusting a position of a tip of the optical fiber proximal to the collimating lens while tracking a power reading using the power meter, selecting a calibration position of the optical fiber corresponding to a highest power reading, and securing the optical fiber relative to the collimating lens using the calibration position.
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公开(公告)号:US09971095B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-15
申请号:US14959068
申请日:2015-12-04
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor: Nam-Hyong Kim , Baris Ibrahim Erkmen , Edward Allen Keyes , Robert Todd Belt
CPC classification number: G02B6/29395 , G02B6/262 , G02B6/29361 , G02B27/141 , H04B10/1125 , H04B10/1129 , H04B10/118 , H04L5/14 , H04Q11/0005 , H04Q2011/0016 , H04Q2011/0026
Abstract: An optical communication terminal is configured to operate in two different complementary modes of full duplex communication. In one mode, the terminal transmits light having a first wavelength and receives light having a second wavelength along a common free space optical path. In the other mode, the terminal transmits light having the second wavelength and receives light having the first wavelength. The terminal includes a steering mirror that directs light to and from a dichroic element that creates different optical paths depending on wavelength, and also includes spatially separated emitters and detectors for the two wavelengths. A first complementary emitter/detector pair is used in one mode, and a second pair is used for the other mode. The system also includes at least two ferrules. Each ferrule operates with a single emitter/detector pair. The ferrules are designed to operate interchangeably with either emitter/detector pair.
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公开(公告)号:US11747578B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-05
申请号:US17697581
申请日:2022-03-17
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor: Nam-Hyong Kim , Andrei Kazmierski , Paul Epp
CPC classification number: G02B6/4221 , G02B6/4225 , G02B27/30
Abstract: A method of calibrating a collimating lens system includes transmitting, using an optical transmitter, a beam out of an optical fiber and through a collimating lens of the collimating lens system. The beam is reflected off a perfect flat mirror positioned at an output of the collimating lens and back towards the collimating lens, and received, via the collimating lens, at a power meter connected to the optical fiber. The method also includes adjusting a position of a tip of the optical fiber proximal to the collimating lens while tracking a power reading using the power meter, selecting a calibration position of the optical fiber corresponding to a highest power reading, and securing the optical fiber relative to the collimating lens using the calibration position.
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公开(公告)号:US20180088280A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US14959068
申请日:2015-12-04
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor: Nam-Hyong Kim , Baris Ibrahim Erkmen , Edward Allen Keyes , Robert Todd Belt
CPC classification number: G02B6/29395 , G02B6/262 , G02B6/29361 , G02B27/141 , H04B10/1125 , H04B10/1129 , H04B10/118 , H04L5/14 , H04Q11/0005 , H04Q2011/0016 , H04Q2011/0026
Abstract: An optical communication terminal is configured to operate in two different complementary modes of full duplex communication. In one mode, the terminal transmits light having a first wavelength and receives light having a second wavelength along a common free space optical path. In the other mode, the terminal transmits light having the second wavelength and receives light having the first wavelength. The terminal includes a steering mirror that directs light to and from a dichroic element that creates different optical paths depending on wavelength, and also includes spatially separated emitters and detectors for the two wavelengths. A first complementary emitter/detector pair is used in one mode, and a second pair is used for the other mode. The system also includes at least two ferrules. Each ferrule operates with a single emitter/detector pair. The ferrules are designed to operate interchangeably with either emitter/detector pair.
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