Progressive metalens for sensing system

    公开(公告)号:US11650428B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-16

    申请号:US16999059

    申请日:2020-08-20

    CPC classification number: G02B27/1066 G02B1/002 G02B3/14 G02C7/06 G02B2207/101

    Abstract: A metalens includes one or more regions of nanostructures. A first region of nanostructures directs a first field of view (FOV) of light incident on the first region of nanostructures to a first region of an image plane. A second region of nanostructures directs a second FOV of light incident on the second region of nanostructures to a second region of the image plane in which the second FOV is different from the first FOV, and the second region of the image plane is different from the first region of the image plane. A third region of nanostructures directs a third FOV of light to a third region of the image plane, in which the third FOV is different from the first FOV and the second FOV, and the third region of the image plane is different from the first region and the second region of the image plane.

    COMPACT OPTICAL HIGH-SPEED SYSTEM FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20220411856A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17694581

    申请日:2022-03-14

    Abstract: A system for nucleic acid (NA) amplification includes a light source configured to emit a first excitation light based on a control signal, a reaction chamber configured to house a solution including a plurality of first nucleic acids (NAs), the plurality of first NAs being configured to amplify in response to the first excitation light, the solution being configured to emit a second light in response to heating by the first excitation light and to emit a third light in response to amplification of the plurality of first NAs, a detector configured to detect the second and third lights and to generate a temperature signal corresponding to the second light and a first fluorescence signal corresponding to the third light, and a lens module configured to focus the second and third lights onto the detector.

    LWIR sensor with capacitive microbolometer and hybrid visible/LWIR sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11496697B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US16868527

    申请日:2020-05-06

    Abstract: A pixel for an image sensor includes a microbolometer sensor portion, a visible image sensor portion and an output path. The microbolometer sensor portion outputs a signal corresponding to an infrared (IR) image sensed by the microbolometer sensor portion. The visible image sensor portion outputs a signal corresponding to a visible image sensed by the visible image sensor portion. The output path is shared by the microbolometer and the visible image sensor portions, and is controlled to selectively output the signal corresponding to the IR image or the signal corresponding to the visible image. The output path may be further shared with a visible image sensor portion of an additional pixel, in which case the output path may be controlled to selectively to also output the signal corresponding to a visible image of the additional pixel.

    Multi-camera on a chip and camera module design

    公开(公告)号:US11201993B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US16945787

    申请日:2020-07-31

    Abstract: A camera system includes two or more sensor arrays and an optical path. The sensor arrays are on the same sensor chip. Each sensor array includes the same field of view (FOV) as each other sensor array. The optical path includes a main lens and a metalens that are shared by each sensor array, and a microlens associated with each sensor array. The metalens splits incident light into different spectrums of light and directs each respective spectrum to a corresponding sensor array. The different spectrums of light include at least two of visible light, near infrared light, shortwave infrared and longwave infrared, and at least one sensor array includes single-photon avalanche diodes. The image processor that provides image processing, object recognition and object tracking and/or image fusion functionality may be on the same sensor chip as the sensor arrays.

    Image sensor and method of operating

    公开(公告)号:US12247879B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-11

    申请号:US18434658

    申请日:2024-02-06

    Abstract: Optical spectrometers may be used to determine the spectral components of electromagnetic waves. Spectrometers may be large, bulky devices and may require waves to enter at a nearly direct angle of incidence in order to record a measurement. What is disclosed is an ultra-compact spectrometer with nanophotonic components as light dispersion technology. Nanophotonic components may contain metasurfaces and Bragg filters. Each metasurface may contain light scattering nanostructures that may be randomized to create a large input angle, and the Bragg filter may result in the light dispersion independent of the input angle. The spectrometer may be capable of handling about 200 nm bandwidth. The ultra-compact spectrometer may be able to read image data in the visible (400-600 nm) and to read spectral data in the near-infrared (700-900 nm) wavelength range. The surface area of the spectrometer may be about 1 mm2, allowing it to fit on mobile devices.

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