OPTICAL POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180172433A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-21

    申请号:US15823604

    申请日:2017-11-28

    摘要: An optical position-measuring device includes a measuring graduation having a measuring graduation period and a scanner movable relative to the measuring graduation. The scanner projects a light pattern having alternating bright and dark regions with a light pattern period onto the measuring graduation. The measuring graduation period differs from the light pattern period such that interaction of the light pattern with the measuring graduation produces a vernier pattern having bright regions and dark regions. The measuring graduation is a phase grating having a line-to-space ratio different from 1:1 and a phase shift between lines and spaces selected such that the zeroth diffraction order is suppressed. The position-measuring device is configured such that, at a position at which the zeroth diffraction order of a bright region is suppressed, a higher diffraction order is deflected and impinges on a detector array in a bright region of the vernier pattern.

    BEAM SCANNING DEVICE, OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND BEAM SCANNING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20180113319A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-26

    申请号:US15566357

    申请日:2015-08-20

    摘要: A beam scanning device includes a variable-wavelength laser that emits a laser beam, a plane-wave converting unit that converts the laser beam into a plane-wave laser beam, a light-intensity-distribution converting unit including a first light-intensity-distribution converting unit set to be obliquely tilted with respect to an emitting direction of the laser beam within a horizontal plane and a second light-intensity-distribution converting unit set to be obliquely tilted with respect to the emitting direction of the laser beam within a plane perpendicular to the horizontal plane and parallel to the emitting direction of the laser beam, the light-intensity-distribution converting unit converting a peak position of light intensity of the plane-wave laser beam according to a wavelength of the plane-wave laser beam, and a spherical-wave converting unit that converts the plane-wave laser beam, the peak position of the light intensity of which is converted, into a spherical-wave laser beam.