Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical deflection device and LIDAR apparatus
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Application No.: US16314292Application Date: 2017-06-28
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Publication No.: US11448729B2Publication Date: 2022-09-20
- Inventor: Toshihiko Baba , Nobuhiko Nishiyama
- Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY , TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama; JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY,TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY,TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama; JP Tokyo
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Priority: JP2016-130877 20160630
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/023747 WO 20170628
- International Announcement: WO2018/003852 WO 20180104
- Main IPC: G01S7/481
- IPC: G01S7/481 ; G02B6/124 ; G01S17/89 ; G02B6/34 ; G02F1/29 ; G02B6/12 ; G02B5/18

Abstract:
In a light deflection device and a lidar device, a parallel operation can be realized with a simple constitution, so as to avoid enlargement or complication of a system. The reflection angle of the light deflection device depends on a wavelength and a refractive index, so that light beams with respective wavelengths different from each other are simultaneously and parallelly deflected in directions of deflection angles each defined by the wavelength and the refractive index. The light beams with the plural wavelengths different from each other are deflected at the different deflection angles each defined by each wavelength and the refractive index, so that they can be deflected simultaneously and parallelly. The plural deflected light beams can be distinguished from each other based on the difference in the wavelength and the deflection angle of the light, even in the simultaneous and parallel operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190204419A1 OPTICAL DEFLECTION DEVICE AND LIDAR APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-07-04
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