ELASTIC RETROREFLECTOR
    91.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220066074A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17525546

    申请日:2021-11-12

    申请人: Hans-Erich GUBELA

    发明人: Hans-Erich GUBELA

    摘要: A retroreflector includes an arrangement of triples, each having three side surfaces, which are disposed in the manner of a cube corner and stand approximately perpendicular on one another. The retroreflector can be produced from a carrier material by injection molding. An optical silicone resin is used as the carrier material. The retroreflector is based on triple mirrors that are both easily unmolded from a die and easily applied to curved surfaces even after unmolding or are usable for reflection of ultraviolet light.

    Managing Detection Region Spacing in an Integrated Photodetector

    公开(公告)号:US20220065692A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17011408

    申请日:2020-09-03

    申请人: Ciena Corporation

    发明人: Charles Baudot

    摘要: A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate includes a silicon dioxide layer and a silicon layer. A detection region receives a detected optical mode coupled to an incident optical mode defined by an optical waveguide in the silicon layer. The detection region consists essentially of an intrinsic semiconductor material with a spacing structure surrounding at least a portion of the detection region, which comprises p-type, n-type doped semiconductor regions adjacent to first, second portions, respectively, of the detection region. A dielectric layer is deposited over at least a portion of the spacing structure. The silicon layer is located between the dielectric layer and the silicon dioxide layer. First, second metal contact structures are formed within trenches in the dielectric layer electrically coupling to the p-type, n-type doped semiconductor regions, respectively, without contacting any of the intrinsic semiconductor material of the detection region.

    DIRECT FILTER HYBRIDIZATION
    93.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220057257A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:US16996427

    申请日:2020-08-18

    申请人: RAYTHEON COMPANY

    发明人: Thomas P. Sprafke

    摘要: An optical sensor and filter assembly is provided and includes an optical sensor, a filter and a mounting structure. The optical sensor includes a detector layer having first and second opposed faces and a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) to which the first face of the detector layer is hybridized. The filter permits passage of one or more wavelength bands of interest of incident light toward the optical sensor and the mounting structure directly hybridizes the filter to the second face of the detector layer.

    Material property inspection apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11255719B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-22

    申请号:US16662688

    申请日:2019-10-24

    IPC分类号: G01J1/02 G01J1/04

    摘要: A material property inspection apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a light source, an irradiation unit, a light receiving unit, a signal detection unit, a material property value input unit, an inspection set value input unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit calculates a relation equation between the material property value from the material property values of the plurality of test pieces and the light intensity of the transmitted light or the reflected light of respective test pieces, calculates the material property value of the inspected object from the light intensity of the transmitted light or the reflected light detected by the signal detection unit and the relation equation, compares the calculated material property value of the inspected object with the inspection set value inputted from the inspection set value input unit, and determines the quality of the inspected object.

    ALL-OPTICAL DETECTOR AND DETECTION SYSTEM, RESPONSE TIME TEST SYSTEM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220011156A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US17294080

    申请日:2018-11-16

    IPC分类号: G01J1/04

    摘要: The present application relates to an all-optical detector and detection system, a response time test system, and a manufacturing method. The all-optical detector comprises a micro-nanofiber and an optical resonant cavity. The micro-nanofiber comprises transition regions and a uniform region. The uniform region is connected to the transition regions. The optical resonant cavity is provided in the uniform region. The optical resonant cavity is made of a semiconductor material. The all-optical detector provided in the present application detects light by means of the change of a resonance peak, achieves all-optical detection, and has a high signal-to-noise ratio.

    Elastic retroreflector
    96.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11215740B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16250357

    申请日:2019-01-17

    申请人: Hans-Erich Gubela

    发明人: Hans-Erich Gubela

    摘要: A retroreflector includes an arrangement of triples, each having three side surfaces, which are disposed in the manner of a cube corner and stand approximately perpendicular on one another. The retroreflector can be produced from a carrier material by injection molding. An optical silicone resin is used as the carrier material. The retroreflector is based on triple mirrors that are both easily unmolded from a die and easily applied to curved surfaces even after unmolding or are usable for reflection of ultraviolet light.

    Lens plate, rain sensor, and light sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11199440B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US16647547

    申请日:2018-09-26

    发明人: Ulrich Backes

    摘要: A lens plate (10) for a rain and/or light sensor is proposed. The lens plate (10) has a base body (18), at least one light limitation structure (21), and at least one lens structure (28), the light limitation structure (21) extending into the base body (18) from a lower side (14) of the lens plate (10), a contour (27) of the light limitation structure (21) facing away from the lower side (14) of the lens plate (10) limiting the lens structure (28) circumferentially, and the contour (27) being substantially triangular. Furthermore, a rain and/or light sensor (8) is proposed.

    SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR DEVICE
    98.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210381884A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-09

    申请号:US17299993

    申请日:2019-12-05

    IPC分类号: G01J1/04 G02B6/02

    摘要: The invention relates to a single photon detector device for detecting an optical signal comprising an optical fiber and at least one nanowire, wherein the optical fiber comprises a core area and a cladding area and is designed to conduct the optical signal along an optical axis, wherein, with respect to the optical axis, a first area of the optical fiber is an entrance area for the optical signal and a second area of the optical fiber is a detector area, and wherein the nanowire becomes superconducting at a predetermined temperature and is designed in the superconducting state to generate an output signal as a function of the optical signal. It is provided that in the detector area of the optical fiber the nanowire extends essentially along the optical axis of the optical fiber. A single photon detector device is thus provided which has a simple structure, a high efficiency, a high detection rate and a high spectral bandwidth.

    Non-contact input device
    99.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11194406B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US16822000

    申请日:2020-03-17

    IPC分类号: G06F3/03 G01J1/04 G06F3/0481

    摘要: An input device includes an optical sensor which senses an object on a plane where the emitted light travels, an optical member which changes a path of the light emitted from the optical sensor, and a processing unit which performs input processing based on sensing results of the optical sensor; the optical sensor and the optical member form a first sensing surface consisting of a planar region in which the light emitted from the optical sensor travels and a second sensing surface that is farther from the optical sensor than the first sensing surface, and the processing unit performs the input processing based on a first sensing result of the optical sensor on the first sensing surface and a second sensing result of the optical sensor on the second sensing surface.

    High density optical measurement systems with minimal number of light sources

    公开(公告)号:US11187575B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US17202641

    申请日:2021-03-16

    申请人: HI LLC

    IPC分类号: G01J1/02 G01J1/04

    摘要: An illustrative optical measurement system may include a wearable assembly configured to be worn by a user and comprising a plurality of light sources each configured to emit light directed at a target and a plurality of detectors configured to detect arrival times for photons of the light after the light is scattered by the target, wherein a ratio of a total number of the detectors to a total number of the light sources is at least two to one.