A coherent LIDAR imaging system includes a laser source; an optical splitter/recombiner designed to split the laser radiation into a reference beam and into an object beam and to superpose the reference beam on a reflected object beam reflected by the scene; and an optical imager creating an image of the scene on a detector. The detector includes an array of pixels designed for detecting the reflected object beam and the reference beam which together form a recombined beam having a beat frequency representative of a range of the illuminated scene. The optical splitter/recombiner is configured to form an intermediate image of the reference beam in an intermediate image plane perpendicular to the optical axis.

Disclosed is a radiation arrangement for a multispectral active remote sensing device. The arrangement includes a transceiver, a detector, and a wavelength-adjustable narrow band stopper.

In a ranging image sensor, each pixel includes an avalanche multiplication region, a charge distribution region, a pair of first charge transfer regions, a pair of second charge transfer regions, a well region, a photogate electrode, a pair of first transfer gate electrodes, and a pair of second transfer gate electrodes. The first multiplication region of the avalanche multiplication region is formed so as to overlap the charge distribution region and so as not to overlap the well region in the Z direction. The second multiplication region of the avalanche multiplication region is formed so as to overlap the charge distribution region and the well region in the Z direction.

The present disclosure relates to a collaborative phase-shift laser ranging device based on differential modulation and demodulation of coarse and precise measuring wavelength and a ranging method thereof. A collaboration terminal is disposed at a target to be measured of a phase-shift laser ranging system, which can improve the intensity of measurement light and then irradiate the same back to a measuring terminal, thereby resolving the problem of low ranging accuracy caused by the attenuation of light intensity during long-distance ranging. The collaboration terminal detects coarseness gauge signals and modulates a laser source by means of differential modulation; the collaboration terminal detects precision gauge signals by means of difference frequency demodulation, and then the intensity of measurement light is improved by mixing and restoring the precision gauge signals and modulating the collaboration-terminal laser source.

A sensor chip includes a sensor pixel. The sensor pixel includes an avalanche photodetector. A circuit is adjacent to the avalanche photodetector. The circuit is coupled to the avalanche photodetector. An isolation structure at least partially encloses the circuit and is between the avalanche photodetector and the circuit.

In some examples, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: an illuminator having an adjustable field of view (FOV), the FOV being adjusted based on setting a direction of propagation of light to illuminate the FOV; a light detector; and a controller configured to: control the illuminator to project the light along a first direction of propagation to illuminate a first FOV; control the illuminator to project the light along a second direction of propagation to illuminate a second FOV; detect, using the light detector, reflected light received from the first FOV and the second FOV to generate one or more detection outputs for a combined FOV including the first FOV and the second FOV; and perform at least one of a detection operation or a ranging operation of an object in the combined FOV based on the one or more detection outputs.

A coaxial lidar system includes one or more emitter channels and one or more sensor channels that share an optical module. A diffractive waveguide can be used to redirect received light from the shared optical module to the sensor channels.

A dual lens assembly positioned along an optical receive path within a LiDAR system is provided. The dual lens assembly is constructed to reduce a numerical aperture of a returned light pulse and reduce a walk-off error associated with one or more mirrors of the LiDAR system.

Aspects of the present disclosure describe large scale steerable optical switched arrays that may be fabricated on a common substrate including many thousands or more emitters that may be arranged in a curved pattern at the focal plane of a lens thereby allowing the directional control of emitted light and selective reception of reflected light suitable for use in imaging, ranging, and sensing applications including accident avoidance.

A lidar system, preferably including one or more transmit modules, beam directors, and/or receive modules, and optionally including one or more processing modules. A method of lidar system operation, preferably including: emitting light beams, receiving reflected light beams, and/or analyzing data associated with the received light beams.