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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2019
Sos Lab Co., Ltd, Gwangju, KR;
Jun Hwan Jang, Gwangju, KR;
Hee Sun Yoon, Incheon, KR;
SOS LAB CO., LTD, Gwangju, KR;
Abstract
A lidar device comprises: a laser emitting unit for including a plurality of VCSEL elements emitting a laser beam; a metasurface for including a plurality of beam steering cells arranged in a form of two-dimensional array by a row direction and a column direction, wherein the plurality of beam steering cells guide the laser beam by using nanopillars; wherein the nanopillars included in the plurality of beam steering cells form a subwavelength pattern, wherein the increase of an attribute related to at least one of the width, height, and number per unit length of the nanopillars is repetitive along the direction from the center of the metasurface to the position of the row corresponding to the plurality of beam steering cells.