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公开(公告)号:US20230213779A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US17908840
申请日:2021-03-03
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
CPC分类号: G02B27/425 , G02B5/0252
摘要: Techniques for designing diffractive optical elements (DOEs) such as diffusers and other optical beam shaping elements can include designing a DOE unit cell on a smaller area than the overall area of the DOE, and then distributing the unit cell across the entire surface for the DOE. Height translations are introduced for at least some of the unit cells distributed across the surface, where the height translations correspond to respective phase translations for the intended operational wavelength of the DOE. In some instances, phase wrapping is introduced to translate the height variations among the unit cells into unit cells having sub-unit structures whose heights fall within a range that corresponds to a specified phase range at the operational wavelength.
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公开(公告)号:US20230408727A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
申请号:US18034956
申请日:2021-11-02
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
CPC分类号: G02B1/002 , G02B5/1809
摘要: An apparatus includes a folded optical path including optically reflective surfaces at least one of which includes an optical metasurface.
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公开(公告)号:US20240337774A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-10
申请号:US18294308
申请日:2022-07-29
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
发明人: James Eilertsen , Villads Egede Johansen , Fredrik Mattinson , Olivier Francois , Ulrich Quaade
IPC分类号: G02B1/00 , H04N23/55 , H04N23/951 , H04N25/13
CPC分类号: G02B1/002 , H04N23/55 , H04N23/951 , H04N25/134
摘要: An apparatus includes, in some implementations, at least one image sensor, a plurality of metalenses, and readout and processing circuitry. The at least one image sensor includes pixel arrays, each of which is associated, respectively, with a different one of multiple optical channels configured for detection of incoming light rays of a respective color. The color for each optical channel differs from that of at least one of the other optical channels. Each of the metalenses is disposed, respectively, in a different one of the optical channels and is configured, respectively, to focus incoming light rays onto a different one of the pixel arrays. The readout and processing circuitry is operable to read out signals from the pixel arrays and to generate a respective lower-resolution image for each of the optical channels, and to process the lower-resolution images to obtain a higher-resolution multi-color image. Methods of operation are described as well.
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公开(公告)号:US20240219741A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-04
申请号:US18289167
申请日:2022-04-08
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
摘要: Structured light generating modules and systems are described. An example structured light generating module includes an array of discrete light sources, an array of discrete fanout elements, and an array of discrete collimator elements interposed between the array of discrete light sources and the array of discrete fanout elements. Each of the discrete collimator elements within the array of discrete collimator elements is aligned to a respective discrete light source within the array of discrete light sources. Each of the fanout elements within the array of discrete fanout elements is aligned to a respective discrete collimator element within the array of discrete collimator elements. Each of the respectively aligned discrete light sources, collimator elements, and fanout elements is configured to generate a unit-cell structured light illumination comprising one or more individual illumination features over at least a portion of a field of illumination of the structured light generating module, wherein one or more of the unit-cell structured light illuminations collectively are a structured light illumination.
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公开(公告)号:US20230194757A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-22
申请号:US17925941
申请日:2021-05-17
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
发明人: Jesper Fly Hansen , Villads Egede Johansen , Maksim Zalkovskij , Brian Bilenberg , James Eilertsen
CPC分类号: G02B1/002 , G02B1/18 , G02B7/003 , G02F1/0102 , G02B2207/101
摘要: Manufacturing an optical device includes providing a substrate (102) having a polymeric layer (104) on a surface of the substrate, forming openings in the polymeric layer, and depositing a material in the openings to form meta-atoms (114, 214) of a first metastructure. Adjacent ones of the meta-atoms are separated from one another by polymeric material of the polymeric layer. Optical devices that include one or more metastructures in which meta-atoms are separated from one another by polymeric material are described, as are modules that incorporate the optical devices.
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公开(公告)号:US20240302568A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18670047
申请日:2024-05-21
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
发明人: Jesper Fly Hansen , Villads Egede Johansen , Maksim Zalkovskij , Brian Bilenberg , James Eilertsen
IPC分类号: G02B1/00 , B29D11/00 , C23C16/04 , C23C16/455 , G02B5/18
CPC分类号: G02B1/002 , B29D11/0074 , C23C16/042 , G02B5/1857 , C23C16/45525 , G02B2207/101
摘要: Methods of manufacturing an optical device can include, in some implementations, providing a substrate having a first polymeric layer on a surface of the substrate and a second polymeric layer on the first polymeric layer, forming first openings in the second polymeric layer to define an etch mask composed of material of the second polymeric layer, and etching to form second openings in the first polymeric layer, wherein locations of the second openings are defined by the etch mask. A material is deposited in the second openings to form meta-atoms of a first metastructure, wherein adjacent ones of the meta-atoms are separated from one another by polymeric material of the first polymeric layer. Optical devices including metastructures can be formed, where meta-atoms of the metastructure have a relatively high aspect ratio.
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公开(公告)号:US20240272448A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-15
申请号:US18570290
申请日:2022-06-08
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
CPC分类号: G02B27/4205 , G02B1/002 , G02B5/1842 , G02B15/14 , H04N23/69 , G02B23/2438 , G02B23/2484
摘要: An apparatus includes a metalens, an image sensor, and an actuator. The metalens is configured to generate multiple diffractive orders of an image at respective corresponding focal lengths. The actuator operable to move at least one of the metalens or the image sensor to each of a various positions so that a distance between the metalens and the image sensor is adjusted, wherein the distance between the metalens and the image sensor for each respective one of the positions corresponds to a particular one of the focal lengths. Adjusting the distance between the metalens and the image sensor provides a zoom in or zoom out operation.
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公开(公告)号:US20230118541A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-20
申请号:US17913953
申请日:2021-01-19
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
IPC分类号: G03F7/00 , H01L27/146 , H01L33/58
摘要: A method includes providing a coating (208) over a first surface (202) of a substrate (204) and over a metasurface (200) on the first surface of the substrate; and imprinting the coating to cause a surface of the coating to have a predetermined characteristic. A device includes a substrate; a metasurface on a first surface of the substrate; and a coating on the metasurface and on the first surface of the substrate, a surface of the coating defining a functional structure.
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公开(公告)号:US20240230951A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18286006
申请日:2022-04-06
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
IPC分类号: G02B1/00 , B82Y20/00 , G02B3/00 , H01L31/0232
CPC分类号: G02B1/002 , B82Y20/00 , G02B3/0056 , H01L31/02325 , G02B2207/101
摘要: An optical metastructure like a metalens is composed of unit cells, each of which has a respective unit cell design defined by a shape and area of meta-atoms for that unit cell, and by an arrangement of the meta-atoms within that unit cell. A first region of the metastructure comprises a plurality of adjacent unit cells that includes a subset of unit cells. The respective unit cell design for each of one or more of the plurality of unit cells that is in the first region, but that is not in the subset, is a respective interpolated unit cell design that is based on the respective unit cell designs of the unit cells in the subset. In case of a metalens, the lens is divided in annular regions for particular incident angles, an initial unit cell structure for an inner and an outer unit cell within the annular region is determined and optimised; the design of the unit cells located between the inner and outer unit cells is interpolated from the initial design.
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公开(公告)号:US20230417964A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-28
申请号:US18030168
申请日:2021-10-08
申请人: NIL Technology ApS
IPC分类号: G02B5/18
CPC分类号: G02B5/1866
摘要: Design techniques are described for diffractive optical elements that, at least in some instances, can permit the design of diffractive optical elements without high frequency features, or with a significantly reduced number of such features. Diffractive optical elements designed in accordance with the described techniques can, in some instances, be easier to manufacture and/or replicate.
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