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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2020
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Blaise Gassend, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ralph Shepard, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pierre-Yves Droz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to optical systems and related methods of their use. An example optical system includes a transmitter. The transmitter includes a light emitter device configured to emit emission light. The light emitter device defines a reference plane. The transmitter also includes a fast axis collimation (FAC) lens optically coupled to the light emitter device. A lens axis of the FAC lens is arranged at a non-zero angle with respect to the reference plane. The transmitter also includes a transmit lens optically coupled to the FAC lens. The optical system also includes a receiver. The receiver includes a receive lens and a light detector optically coupled to the receive lens.