Optical device
    53.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12248140B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-11

    申请号:US17695743

    申请日:2022-03-15

    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical deflector that emits, through a light exit surface parallel to a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction and in a direction intersecting the light exit surface, an optical beam having a shape extending in the second direction and that is configured to cause a direction of emission of the optical beam to change along the first direction and an optical element, placed on a path of the optical beam, that expands an extent of spread of the optical beam in the second direction.

    Optical filter, light detecting device, and light detecting system

    公开(公告)号:US12235160B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US18505552

    申请日:2023-11-09

    Abstract: An optical filter includes a filter array including filters two-dimensionally arrayed and a band-pass filter. The filters includes first and second filters. A transmission spectrum of each of the first and second filters has local maximum values of transmittance at three or more wavelengths included in a first wavelength region. The band-pass filter passes light in a second wavelength region including two or more wavelengths of the three or more wavelengths and not including one or more wavelengths of the three or more wavelengths. The filter array and the band-pass filter are disposed so that (a) the band-pass filter is located on an optical path of light that passes through the first and second filters or (b) the first and second filters are located on an optical path of light that passes through the band-pass filter.

    Photodetection system
    55.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12204187B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-21

    申请号:US18529937

    申请日:2023-12-05

    Abstract: An optical scan device includes an optical waveguide array, including a plurality of optical waveguides each of which propagates light along a first direction, that emits a light beam, the plurality of optical waveguides being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a phase shifter array including a plurality of phase shifters connected separately to each of the plurality of optical waveguides, a control circuit that controls a phase shift amount of each of the plurality of phase shifters and/or inputting of light to each of the plurality of phase shifters and thereby controls a direction and shape of the light beam that is emitted from the optical waveguide array, a photodetector that detects the light beam reflected by a physical object, and a signal processing circuit that generates distance distribution data on the basis of output from the photodetector.

    Optical device and photodetection system

    公开(公告)号:US12038606B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17488391

    申请日:2021-09-29

    CPC classification number: G02B6/124 G01S7/4817

    Abstract: An optical device includes a first mirror having a first reflecting surface and extending along a first direction, a second mirror having a second reflecting surface that faces the first reflecting surface and extending along the first direction, and an optical waveguide layer, located between the first mirror and the second mirror, that causes light to propagate along the first direction. A transmittance of the first mirror is higher than a transmittance of the second mirror. A reflection spectrum of at least either the first mirror or the second mirror with respect to light arriving from a direction normal to the reflecting surface includes, in a wavelength region in which a reflectance is higher than or equal to 90%, a local maximum point and first and second points of inflection located closer to a long-wavelength side than the local maximum point.

    Photodetection system
    58.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11867991B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17944802

    申请日:2022-09-14

    CPC classification number: G02F1/13312 G02B6/12009 G02B6/29343 G02B6/3546

    Abstract: An optical scan device includes an optical waveguide array, including a plurality of optical waveguides each of which propagates light along a first direction, that emits a light beam, the plurality of optical waveguides being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a phase shifter array including a plurality of phase shifters connected separately to each of the plurality of optical waveguides, a control circuit that controls a phase shift amount of each of the plurality of phase shifters and/or inputting of light to each of the plurality of phase shifters and thereby controls a direction and shape of the light beam that is emitted from the optical waveguide array, a photodetector that detects the light beam reflected by a physical object, and a signal processing circuit that generates distance distribution data on the basis of output from the photodetector.

    Optical device and photodetection system

    公开(公告)号:US11256043B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-22

    申请号:US16984746

    申请日:2020-08-04

    Abstract: An optical device includes a first waveguide that propagates light in a first direction; and a second waveguide including a first mirror, a second mirror, and an optical waveguide layer. The first mirror extends in the first direction and has a first reflecting surface, and the second mirror extends in the first direction and has a second reflecting surface. The optical waveguide layer is located between the first and second mirrors and propagates the light in the first direction. A forward end portion of the first waveguide is disposed inside the optical waveguide layer. In a region in which the first and second waveguides overlap each other when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first reflecting surface, at least part of the first waveguide and/or at least part of the second waveguide includes at least one grating whose refractive index varies periodically in the first direction.

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