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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
May. 09, 2022
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Jeffrey Matthew Kempf, Dallas, TX (US);
Alexander Lyubarsky, Dallas, TX (US);
Amit Mittal, Bangalore, IN;
Terry Alan Bartlett, Dallas, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a focusing lens, a SLM optically coupled to the focusing lens and comprising micromirrors on a surface of the SLM, where the focusing lens is tilted at an incident angle relative to the surface of the SLM, an incident light beam is illuminated on the SLM at the incident angle, and the incident angle is greater by an offset angle than twice a tilt angle of the micromirrors with respect to the surface of the SLM. The apparatus also includes an actuator optically coupled to the SLM, and projection optics optically coupled to the actuator.