Insight Lidar, Inc.

Applied Innovative Technologies, Inc.

Russell E Sibell

Jason Ensher

Christopher Wood

Steven Robert Vetorino

Man Sheung Wong

Steve Yauhong Yim

An optical system and a method for non-mechanically (i.e., without physical movement) scanning a laser using a lens, a steering optical element, and transmission and receive paths having a non-zero spatial offset. Also, an optical system and a method for non-linearly and non-mechanically scanning a laser using a lens and a steering optical element, such that detection points resulting from the scanned laser are non-linearly mapped into space.

Multi-beam, wavelength-tuned laser scanning

Apparatus for collecting light from an LED and transmitting it in a near-uniform column incudes a conical reflector having a roughed up inner surface about the base of the LED for collecting light emitted to the sides of the LED, and a lens specially designed to focus the collected light into a near-collimated beam. The lens has opposite, substantially elliptical surfaces to collect and collimate the rapidly diverging light from the LED and the reflector, and each lens surface includes a flat spot to prevent shadows from forming, thereby producing a more uniform beam.

Led light collection and uniform transmission system using a conical reflector with a roughed up inner surface

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Lafayette, CO, United States of America

Russell E Sibell