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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tobias Gerard Tiecke, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kevin Jerome Quirk, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yael Maguire, Boston, MA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Various of the disclosed embodiments incorporate wavelength-shifting (WLS) materials to facilitate high data rate communication. Some embodiments employ a waveguide incorporating such WLS materials to receive a wireless signal from a source. The signal may be, e.g., in the optical or ultraviolet ranges, facilitating a ˜10 Gbps data rate. Because the WLS material is sensitive in all directions, the source may be isotropic or wide-angled. The WLS material may be shaped into one or more 'bands' that may cover an object, e.g., a head-mounted display. A detector may be coupled with the bands to receive the wavelength-shifted signal and to recover the original signal from the source. The WLS material may be modified to improve the waveguide retention, e.g., by incorporating layers of material having a different reflection coefficient or a Bragg reflector.