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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2017
Applicant:
The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Inventors:
Juliet T. Gopinath, Boulder, CO (US);
Victor M. Bright, Boulder, CO (US);
Mo Zohrabi, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert H. Cormack, Erie, CO (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of Colorado a body corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 3/00 (2006.01); G02B 3/12 (2006.01); G02B 26/00 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 3/12 (2013.01); G02B 26/005 (2013.01); G02B 26/0875 (2013.01); G02B 26/101 (2013.01); G02B 2207/115 (2013.01);
Abstract
Wide-angle beam steering using two or more variable lenses to form a small-angle beam steering element, along with a numerical aperture converter and a wide-angle lens. The small-angle beam steering element might comprise either one- or two-dimensional beam steering with tunable liquid lenses.