Color-routers for Image Sensing
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230417960A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18030126

    申请日:2021-11-02

    IPC分类号: G02B5/02 G02B27/00 G02B27/10

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed toward systems for providing color-selective light detection and/or image sensing in a substantially lossless manner, thereby providing higher and up to nearly perfect optical efficiency. Embodiments disclosed herein include a plurality of pixel-repeat units, each including a color router that is configured to selectively route photons of each wavelength signal in a light signal to a different photodetector of the pixel-repeat unit. In some embodiments, the color router also functions as an anti-reflection coating that mitigates reflection of incident light, as well as a lensing system that directs substantially all photons of each wavelength signal only to their corresponding photodetector. As a result, the photodetectors collect more light than possible using prior-art absorptive color filters, thereby enabling smaller photodetectors to be used. Therefore, scaling of image sensor photodetectors to sub-wavelength sizes is possible.