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Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2023
Applicant:

X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Paul Epp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrei Kazmierski, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Devin Brinkley, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/29 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/292 (2013.01); G02B 27/0087 (2013.01); G02F 2203/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure provide a system including a first communications terminal. The first communications terminal may include an optical phased array (OPA) including a plurality of phase shifters configured to receive an optical communications beam from a second communications terminal. The first communications terminal may also include one or more processors configured to determine a link axis for communication with the second communications terminal based on the received optical communications beam, identify a compensatory wavefront curvature for mitigating cross-coupling, and generate a wavefront of an outgoing optical communications beam using the plurality of phase shifters based on the determined link axis and the compensatory wavefront curvature.


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