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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2022
Silc Technologies, Inc., Monrovia, CA (US);
Nirmal Chindhu Warke, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mehdi Asghari, La Canada Flintridge, CA (US);
Majid Boloorian, San Diego, CA (US);
SiLC Technologies, Inc., Monrovia, CA (US);
Abstract
A LIDAR system includes a signal director that can direct an outgoing LIDAR signal to any one of multiple different alternate waveguides. Each of the alternate waveguides being associated with a different switch channel in that a light signal that includes light from the outgoing LIDAR signal directed to a particular one of the alternate waveguides can be characterized as carrying the switch channel associated with that alternate waveguide. The LIDAR system is configured to output system output signals that include light from the outgoing LIDAR signals. The system output signals carry different switch channels. The LIDAR system is configured to receive system return signals that each includes light from the system output signals after an object located outside of the system has received and reflected the system output signal. A signal combiner that generates different composite signals by combining light from system return signals that carry different switch channels with a reference signal. Electronics calculate LIDAR data from the frequency of one or more of the composite signals. The LIDAR system being configured to continue to generate a composite signal that carries a first one of the switch channels for a substantial period of time after the imaging system has stopped outputting the system output signal that carries the first switch channel.