SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240332904A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18661788

    申请日:2024-05-13

    IPC分类号: H01S5/183

    CPC分类号: H01S5/18347 H01S5/18327

    摘要: A semiconductor component for emitting light, having a base body that has at least one mesa body with an emission region for light, the at least one mesa body being arranged on a surface of the base body and is assigned a first mirror portion, a second mirror portion, and an active layer arranged between the two mirror portions for generating the light, and having a contact unit for feeding electrical energy into the active layer, the contact unit having a joining portion for joining and/or for external contacting of the semiconductor component and an active contact portion that is arranged between the joining portion and the active layer, the at least one contact unit being arranged on a side of the base body opposite to the emission region, the joining portion at least partially covering the mesa-receiving body portion and a mesa-free body portion of the base body.

    Energy efficient laser arrangement

    公开(公告)号:US12034275B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-09

    申请号:US16919149

    申请日:2020-07-02

    IPC分类号: H01S5/183 H01S5/42 H01S5/042

    摘要: A laser arrangement includes a laser array including a plurality of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting lasers and an optical structure including a diffuser arranged to change a distribution of the laser light. The optical structure is configured to transform the laser light to transformed laser light such that an overlap of the emission cones of at least a group of the plurality of lasers is increased in field-of-view in comparison to perfectly collimated laser light diffused to a flat-top intensity profile in the field-of-view. The optical structure is arranged to redirect the laser light emitted at angles of the emission cone to the field-of-view so as to increase the overlap of the emitted laser light in the field-of-view. The optical structure is also configured to provide a slope angle α of an intensity profile along a direction of the field-of-view that is smaller than a divergence angle of the laser.

    ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR A DISTANCE MEASUREMENT CAMERA SYSTEM, A CORRESPONDING ILLUMINATION METHOD AND A TOF CAMERA SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230019896A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17952347

    申请日:2022-09-26

    IPC分类号: G01S7/481 G01S17/89

    摘要: The present invention relates to an illumination device for a distance measurement camera, in particular a time of flight, TOF, camera system, a corresponding illumination method and a distance measurement camera system comprising said illumination device in order to improve distance measurements. The illumination device is configured to illuminate a particular region on an illumination plane with two different illumination profiles such as a first homogenous illumination profile and a second spot pattern illumination profile. The homogeneous illumination profile can enable a measurement with improved lateral resolution whereas the spot pattern illumination can enable a measurement with improved depth resolution.

    Method and apparatus for determining the absolute value of the flow velocity of a particle-transporting medium

    公开(公告)号:US11543273B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16718545

    申请日:2019-12-18

    IPC分类号: G01F1/661 G01F1/66

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for determining the absolute value of the flow velocity (v) of a particle-transporting medium. At least two measurement laser beams (L_i) with linearly independent, non-orthogonal measurement directions (b_i) are emitted. The measurement laser beams (L_i) scattered at particles are detected and one measurement signal (m_i) is generated in each case for each measurement laser beam (L_i). The measurement signals (m_i) are evaluated, wherein absolute values of velocity components (v_i) are ascertained as projections of the flow velocity (v) on the respective measurement directions (b_i), wherein a solid angle region is ascertained for the prevalent direction of the flow velocity (v) and signs assigned to this solid angle region are chosen for the individual velocity components (v_i), and wherein the absolute value of the flow velocity (v) is determined using the ascertained absolute values of the velocity components (v_i) and using the chosen signs for the velocity components (v_i).

    DIFFUSOR LENS, LIGHT SOURCE, METHOD OF FABRICATING A LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD OF ILLUMINATING A SCENE

    公开(公告)号:US20220107077A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17491650

    申请日:2021-10-01

    IPC分类号: F21V5/04 G02B3/00

    摘要: A diffuser lens includes a first annular lens segment and a second annular lens segment. The first and the second lens segments are concentric. A refractive index of the first and second lens segments in a cross-section along a plane including an optical axis of the diffusor lens is described by a refractive index profile which varies in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The refractive index profile includes a first sub-profile, which describes the refractive index profile of the first lens segment, and a second sub-profile, which describes the refractive index profile of the second lens segment. The first sub-profile transitions to the second sub-profile at an interface. These first and second sub-profiles have slopes with opposite signs.

    Laser arrangement with reduced building height

    公开(公告)号:US11217967B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US17148604

    申请日:2021-01-14

    摘要: A laser arrangement includes a laser array, and an optical arrangement. The laser array includes lasers in a first pattern emitting a same laser emission profile around a first optical axis with a divergence angle θ/2. The optical arrangement has a diffusor with an array of optical elements in a second pattern, with a second optical axis, and with an illumination pattern along a first illumination axis in a field-of-view if laser light is received within a defined range smaller than or equal to a range of angles between −/+θ with respect to the second optical axis. A row of lasers parallel to the first illumination axis has a pitch p. A row of m optical elements is parallel to the first axis. Each optical element has a diameter L, and contacts its neighbor. The n lasers and the m optical elements satisfy n*p=m*L with a deviation smaller than +/−5%.

    VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210399524A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US17344984

    申请日:2021-06-11

    摘要: A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) includes a layer stack of semiconductor layers having a first layer sub-stack forming a mesa, and a second layer sub-stack adjacent to the mesa in a stacking direction. Layers of the second layer sub-stack extend beyond layers of the first sub-stack in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction. The semiconductor layers of the layer stack form an optical resonator having a first mirror, a second mirror, an active region between the first and second mirrors for laser light generation, and an oxide aperture layer forming a current aperture. The oxide aperture layer is made from Al1-xGaxAs with 0≤x≤0.05. The oxide aperture layer is a last layer of the mesa and immediately adjacent to a first layer of the second layer sub-stack. A first layer of the second layer sub-stack is a contact layer.