POLARIZATION INSENSITIVE OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20190179064A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-13

    申请号:US15838498

    申请日:2017-12-12

    IPC分类号: G02B5/18 G02F1/29 G01S17/10

    摘要: A polarization insensitive optical phased array is provided, for LIDAR or other purposes. A polarization rotator splitter or two-dimensional grating coupler provides two components of co-polarized (e.g. TE-polarized) light. Each component can be routed to a separate optical phased array (OPA) component, and light output of one of the OPA components is rotated in polarization by use of a half wave plate. A polarization controller can receive and control the two components of co-polarized light and then passes the controlled light to the two OPA components. A single OPA component can also be used along with a controller which combines the two components of co-polarized light into a single output, passed to the single OPA component.

    COHERENT LIDAR METHOD AND APPARATUS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190293794A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US15936240

    申请日:2018-03-26

    IPC分类号: G01S17/58 G01S7/481 G01S7/486

    摘要: A coherent LIDAR method and apparatus are provided, in which two optical signals having a first frequency difference are reflected by an object. A difference in frequency between the corresponding received and reflected signals is determined. The frequency difference between the reflected signals differs from the first frequency difference due to Doppler effects. The object velocity is determined based on a comparison between the first frequency difference and the frequency difference in the reflected signals. The emitted signals can be produced by modulating a common light source. The reflected signals are inherently mixed at the receiver and further processed. Distance to the object can be determined by pulsing the emitted signals and measuring a time of flight by detecting corresponding pulse edges in the reflected signals, or by using phase sweeping. The emitter can be implemented using an optical phased array.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TUNABLE PHOTONIC DELAY

    公开(公告)号:US20210014584A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-14

    申请号:US16508652

    申请日:2019-07-11

    摘要: A system and method for a tunable optical delay line. The tunable optical delay line comprises a coarse delay portion that provides a coarse delay amount, the coarse delay portion including a coarse delay selection element in conjunction with a coarse delay element, the coarse delay selection element incorporated on-chip into a photonic integrated circuit (IC) component, the coarse delay element being disposed off-chip of the photonic IC component and interconnected with the coarse delay selection element; and a fine delay element that provides a fine delay amount, the fine delay element interconnected in series with the coarse delay selection element, the optical delay line being tunable to a target delay amount by agglomerating the coarse and fine delay amounts.