Lens array to disperse zero-order beams of an emitter array on a diffractive optical element

    公开(公告)号:US12007576B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-11

    申请号:US16168410

    申请日:2018-10-23

    CPC classification number: G02B27/0961 G02B27/0944 G02B27/30

    Abstract: An optical system may include an emitter array to emit a plurality of beams of light, and a lens array. The lens array may be arranged to collimate and direct each of the plurality of beams of light. A pitch between lenses of the lens array may be larger than a pitch between emitters of the emitter array in order to cause the plurality of beams of light to be directed such that they diverge after exiting the lens array. The optical system may include a diffractive optical element to distribute each of the plurality of beams of light into a plurality of beamlets in association with creating a light pattern. The divergence of each of the plurality of beams of light may cause a plurality of zero-order beamlets, each corresponding to one of the plurality of beams of light, to diverge after exiting the diffractive optical element.

    DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH OFF-AXIS INCIDENCE IN A STRUCTURED LIGHT APPLICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190140419A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16168398

    申请日:2018-10-23

    Abstract: A structured light system may include a semiconductor laser to emit light and a diffractive optical element to diffract the light such that one or more diffracted orders of the light, associated with forming a structured light pattern, are transmitted by the diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element may be arranged such that the light is to be incident on the diffractive optical element at a substantially non-normal angle of incidence. The substantially non-normal angle of incidence may be designed to cause the diffractive optical element to transmit a zero-order beam of the light outside of a field of view associated with the diffractive optical element.

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