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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Omid Momtahan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/11 (2013.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); G01J 1/44 (2006.01); G02B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/11 (2013.01); G01J 1/0411 (2013.01); G01J 1/44 (2013.01); G02B 19/0028 (2013.01); G02B 19/0076 (2013.01);
Abstract
A directional free-space optical communication system includes a source device including a laser diode and an endpoint device including a photodiode. The endpoint device also includes an optical structure, such as an optical adapter, that increases both angular and spatial offset tolerance between the two source device and the endpoint device.