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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael J. Mandella, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Olav Solgaard, Stanford, CA (US);
Christopher H. Contag, San Jose, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Various aspects as described herein are directed to apparatuses, methods, and systems including a sandwiched arrangement having a light-access port, a scanning mirror, an optics region, and a spacer. The spacer provides a light-directing optical region that separates the scanning mirror and the optics region, and includes a mirrored surface that reflects light between the light-access port and the optics region. Additionally, the optics region includes a curved-shaped window that provides a field of view by communicating beams of light between a target region. The optics region also includes a curved-shaped mirror having a surface that reflects light between the scanning mirror and the mirrored surface. Light beams, as conveyed between the light-access port and the curved-shaped window, are folded by being reflected off the scanning mirror, the curved-shaped mirror and the mirrored surface.