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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
May. 12, 2023
Purelifi Limited, Edinburgh, GB;
Harald Ulrich Haas, Edinburgh, GB;
Janis Sperga, Edinburgh, GB;
PURELIFI LIMITED, Edinburgh, GB;
Abstract
An optical wireless communications (OWC) receiver is configured for receiving light encoded with one or more data signals from one or more light sources of one or more OWC transmitters and for generating one or more electrical signals which are representative of the received light. The OWC receiver comprises a photodetector configured to generate the one or more electrical signals, a freeform optical component comprising a plurality of lenslets, each lenslet comprising a corresponding lenslet optical surface, wherein at least one of the lenslet optical surfaces is translationally and cylindrically asymmetric, wherein the freeform optical component comprises a three-dimensional freeform optical surface which includes the lenslet optical surfaces, and wherein the freeform optical component and the photodetector are configured so that the freeform optical component directs at least a portion of the light that is incident on the freeform optical component from the light source onto the photodetector. An OWC transmitter and an OWC system are also disclosed.