The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society

Aidong Zhang

Hongjie Wang

Caiming Sun

An optical phased array lidar includes: a laser, for emitting a laser signal; an optical beam splitter, for splitting a laser signal into multiple sub-signals, and distributing them to corresponding optical paths; a phase controller connected to the optical beam splitter, for regulating phases of the multiple sub-signals; an optical antenna array based on a one-dimensional grating structure, connected to the phase controller and for uniformly scattering the phase-regulated sub-signals into free space; and a silicon nitride waveguide array, for transmitting the sub-signals and phase-regulated sub-signals to realize the transmission of near-infrared light and visible light. The optical phased array lidar uses a silicon nitride waveguide array for transmission, thereby realizing the transmission of near-infrared light and visible light. In this way, the lidar can work in the visible light band, thereby broadening the working ranging thereof.

Growing community of inventors

Guangdong, China

Aidong Zhang