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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2021
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Blaise Gassend, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Duff, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Pierre-Yves Droz, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paul Karplus, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jason Watson, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Brickner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Rivas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to devices, lidar systems, and vehicles that include optical redirectors. An example lidar system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes at least one light-emitter device configured to transmit emission light into an environment of the lidar system. The receiver is configured to detect return light from the environment and includes a plurality of apertures, a plurality of photodetectors, and a plurality of optical redirectors. Each optical redirector is configured to optically couple a respective portion of return light from a respective aperture to at least one photodetector of the plurality of photodetectors. At least one of the optical redirectors includes an optically isolating coating.