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.

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 fiber enabled optical wireless communication (FE-OWC) system and method is provided. An optical antenna composed of an optical fiber transceiving port array and a lens or a reflecting mirror is used to generate optical beams in different directions, such that full-beam coverage of a communication area is implemented. The optical antenna is connected to an optical chain by an optical fiber, the optical chain realizes mutual conversion of an optical signal and an electrical signal, and a baseband signal processing unit which is in electrical signal connection with the optical chain realizes user scheduling, transceiving signal processing, etc. Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) or massive MIMO or beam division multiple access optical wireless communication between a base station and user terminals is implemented by using the optical beams. The FE-OWC system and method may support ultra-high-rate user data transmission and system throughput, and have a low complexity.

A fiber enabled optical wireless communication (FE-OWC) system and method is provided. An optical antenna composed of an optical fiber transceiving port array and a lens or a reflecting mirror is used to generate optical beams in different directions, such that full-beam coverage of a communication area is implemented. The optical antenna is connected to an optical chain by an optical fiber, the optical chain realizes mutual conversion of an optical signal and an electrical signal, and a baseband signal processing unit which is in electrical signal connection with the optical chain realizes user scheduling, transceiving signal processing, etc. Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) or massive MIMO or beam division multiple access optical wireless communication between a base station and user terminals is implemented by using the optical beams. The FE-OWC system and method may support ultra-high-rate user data transmission and system throughput, and have a low complexity.

A network device generates first resonant light used to carry information; and the network device sends the first resonant light to a terminal by using a resonant cavity component, where the resonant cavity component of the network device and a resonant cavity component of the terminal form an open resonant cavity. In wireless optical communication, an information transmission rate can be greatly improved by using a resonant light multiplexing technology. This application further discloses a network device and a terminal that can implement the foregoing wireless optical communication method.

Disclosed embodiments provide a lighting apparatus with microwave induction. The microwave induction lamp emits electromagnetic waves through an antenna, such as a planar antenna. When a moving object enters the electromagnetic wave environment, the waveform is reflected and folded back and received by a microwave transceiver via the antenna and serves as a trigger signal. When the antenna receives the feedback waveform, a microcontroller-operated circuit activates a lighting device (e.g., a bank of light emitting diodes (LEDs)) in response to detecting the trigger signal. Disclosed embodiments use the trigger signal to turn the lighting device (lamps) on and off and further include a delay function, via a timer, to keep the lighting device activated for a predetermined period after detecting the trigger signal. In this way, a safe and efficient automatically activated lighting apparatus is provided.

Disclosed embodiments provide a lighting apparatus with microwave induction. The microwave induction lamp emits electromagnetic waves through an antenna, such as a planar antenna. When a moving object enters the electromagnetic wave environment, the waveform is reflected and folded back and received by a microwave transceiver via the antenna and serves as a trigger signal. When the antenna receives the feedback waveform, a microcontroller-operated circuit activates a lighting device (e.g., a bank of light emitting diodes (LEDs)) in response to detecting the trigger signal. Disclosed embodiments use the trigger signal to turn the lighting device (lamps) on and off and further include a delay function, via a timer, to keep the lighting device activated for a predetermined period after detecting the trigger signal. In this way, a safe and efficient automatically activated lighting apparatus is provided.

Optical systems, receivers, devices, and methods including a free space beam combining and polarization splitting prism to receive local oscillator light and optical signals in substantially parallel input paths that are in the same plane and output two orthogonally polarized beams in substantially parallel output paths that are substantially perpendicular to the plane of the input paths. Light in one of the incoming paths is reflected toward a combining surface that combines the local oscillator light and the optical signal. The combined beam then encounters a polarization splitting surface that splits the combined beam into two orthogonally polarized beams. One of the polarized beam may be reflected 90 degrees in plane and then both orthogonally polarized beams are reflected 90 degrees of out of plane to output each orthogonally polarized beam into substantially parallel optical output paths.

Optical systems, receivers, devices, and methods including a free space beam combining and polarization splitting prism to receive local oscillator light and optical signals in substantially parallel input paths that are in the same plane and output two orthogonally polarized beams in substantially parallel output paths that are substantially perpendicular to the plane of the input paths. Light in one of the incoming paths is reflected toward a combining surface that combines the local oscillator light and the optical signal. The combined beam then encounters a polarization splitting surface that splits the combined beam into two orthogonally polarized beams. One of the polarized beam may be reflected 90 degrees in plane and then both orthogonally polarized beams are reflected 90 degrees of out of plane to output each orthogonally polarized beam into substantially parallel optical output paths.

An optical receiver device includes a boost converter circuit, an optical receiver circuit, and a pulse width modulation controller circuitry. The boost converter circuit is configured to convert a supply voltage according to a pulse width modulation signal, in order to generate an output voltage. The optical receiver circuit is configured to set a gain according to the output voltage, in order to convert an optical signal to a data signal according to the gain. The pulse width modulation controller circuitry is configured to perform a digital to analog conversion according to a control code to gradually adjust a current associated with the output voltage, and to compare the output voltage with a reference voltage to generate the pulse width modulation signal.