Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-beam scanning system
-
Application No.: US16537581Application Date: 2019-08-11
-
Publication No.: US11493606B1Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: David S. Gere , Brad V. Johnson , Neil MacKinnon , Scott T. Smith , Seyedeh Nasim Habibi
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kligler & Associates Patent Attorneys Ltd
- Main IPC: G02B27/10
- IPC: G02B27/10 ; G01S7/481 ; G02B26/08 ; G02B26/10 ; G02B26/12 ; G02B27/09 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S17/08

Abstract:
Optical apparatus includes a plurality of emitters arranged in a row and configured to emit respective beams of optical radiation. Projection optics, which are configured to project the beams toward a target, include first cylindrical lenses, which have respective, mutually-parallel first cylinder axes and are aligned respectively with the emitters in the row so as to receive and focus the respective beams in a first dimension, and a second cylindrical lens, which has a second cylinder axis perpendicular to the first cylinder axes and is positioned to receive and focus all of the beams in a second dimension, perpendicular to the first dimension. A scan driver is configured to shift the second cylindrical lens in a direction perpendicular to the second cylinder axis so as to scan the beams across the target.
Information query