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1. US20190372667 - Systems and methods for adjusting movable lenses in directional free-space optical communication systems for portable electronic devices

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United States of America
Application Number 16399925
Application Date 30.04.2019
Publication Number 20190372667
Publication Date 05.12.2019
Grant Number 10700780
Grant Date 30.06.2020
Publication Kind B2
IPC
H04B 10/112
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
11Arrangements specific to free-space transmission, i.e. transmission through air or vacuum
112Line-of-sight transmission over an extended range
H04B 10/50
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
50Transmitters
G02B 26/08
GPHYSICS
02OPTICS
BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
26Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating or modulating
08for controlling the direction of light
H04B 10/079
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
07Arrangements for monitoring or testing transmission systems; Arrangements for fault measurement of transmission systems
075using an in-service signal
079using measurements of the data signal
G02B 26/10
GPHYSICS
02OPTICS
BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
26Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating or modulating
08for controlling the direction of light
10Scanning systems
H04B 10/69
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
60Receivers
66Non-coherent receivers, e.g. using direct detection
69Electrical arrangements in the receiver
CPC
G02B 26/0875
GPHYSICS
02OPTICS
BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
26Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating
08for controlling the direction of light
0875by means of one or more refracting elements
H04B 10/1121
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
11Arrangements specific to free-space transmission, i.e. transmission through air or vacuum
112Line-of-sight transmission over an extended range
1121One-way transmission
G02B 26/101
GPHYSICS
02OPTICS
BOPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
26Optical devices or arrangements using movable or deformable optical elements for controlling the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light, e.g. switching, gating, modulating
08for controlling the direction of light
10Scanning systems
101with both horizontal and vertical deflecting means, e.g. raster or XY scanners
H04B 10/07955
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
07Arrangements for monitoring or testing transmission systems; Arrangements for fault measurement of transmission systems
075using an in-service signal
079using measurements of the data signal
0795Performance monitoring; Measurement of transmission parameters
07955Monitoring or measuring power
H04B 10/503
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
50Transmitters
501Structural aspects
503Laser transmitters
H04B 10/691
HELECTRICITY
04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
BTRANSMISSION
10Transmission systems employing electromagnetic waves other than radio-waves, e.g. infrared, visible or ultraviolet light, or employing corpuscular radiation, e.g. quantum communication
60Receivers
66Non-coherent receivers, e.g. using direct detection
69Electrical arrangements in the receiver
691Arrangements for optimizing the photodetector in the receiver
Applicants Apple Inc.
Inventors Omid Momtahan
Tong Chen
Agents Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Title
(EN) Systems and methods for adjusting movable lenses in directional free-space optical communication systems for portable electronic devices
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Abstract
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A directional free-space optical communication system includes a source device including a laser diode and an endpoint device including a photodiode. The endpoint device and the source device also include an adjustable optics subsystem that increases both angular and positional offset tolerance between the source device and the endpoint device.
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