WO2021153828A1 - 광학 장치 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an optical device capable of controlling the steering of a beam radiated from an end-fire optical phased array, and more particularly, to a vertical divergence angle of a radiated beam. It relates to an optical device that can reduce the
- LiDAR Light Detection and Ranging
- LiDAR emits a beam generated by a laser in a desired direction using a steering device, and when the emitted beam is reflected by an object, detects the reflected light and measures the distance to the object.
- a typical LiDAR used a mechanical rotating device equipped with a mirror as a device to steer a beam.
- mechanical LiDAR has problems in that it is difficult to miniaturize because of the rotation mechanism or mirror for reflection, it is vulnerable to performance degradation due to wear or vibration caused by mechanical motion, and power consumption is large.
- a single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrayer that steers a beam using the interference characteristics of light waves emitted from a plurality of light-radiator arrays without using a mechanical steering device has been researched and developed.
- the horizontal radiation angle of the beam is determined by the phase difference of the light waves emitted from each light emitter.
- the beam can be steered in the horizontal direction by adjusting it as an optical phased array.
- the arrangement distance becomes smaller than the wavelength, and the maximum horizontal viewing angle can be obtained when it is half the wavelength.
- the optical emitter of the single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrayer is used in an array, so that N pieces are used in an array.
- the thickness of is smaller than the wavelength, and the array width of the light emitters may be larger than the wavelength.
- the single-sided light-emitting optical emitter arrangement of the single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrayer can have a wide vertical radiation angle due to the narrow thickness of the optical emitter.
- an object of the present invention is to provide an optical device capable of reducing the vertical divergence angle of a beam emitted from a single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrayer.
- the present invention is to provide an optical device capable of suppressing power interference while widening the horizontal viewing angle of a beam emitted from a single-sided light emitting optical phase arrayer.
- An optical device includes an optical splitter that branches an optical signal into a plurality of channels, an optical phase controller that adjusts the phase of the optical signal transmitted from the optical splitter, and the optical signal transmitted from the optical phase controller and a single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrangement including a single-sided light-emitting optical emitter for emitting a light beam and a cylindrical lens positioned on a path of the emitted optical signal to adjust a vertical divergence angle.
- the cylindrical lens may be a plano-convex lens.
- a convex surface of the cylindrical lens may be an incident surface, and a plane may be an emission surface.
- a plane of the cylindrical lens may be an incident surface, and a convex surface may be an emission surface.
- An incident surface and an emission surface of the cylindrical lens may be convex.
- the emitting surface of the cylindrical lens may be a convex surface, and the incident surface may be a concave surface having a smaller curvature than the emitting surface.
- the cylindrical lens may have a sectoral arc shape in a horizontal direction, an incident surface of the cylindrical lens may be a flat surface, and an emission surface may be a convex surface.
- a distance from the single-sided light emitter to the incident surface may be uniform.
- the cylindrical lens may have a sectoral arc shape in a horizontal direction, an emitting surface of the cylindrical lens may be flat, and an incident surface of the cylindrical lens may be a convex surface.
- a distance between the cylindrical lens and the single-sided light emitter may be greater than a focal length of the cylindrical lens.
- the single-sided light emitting light emitter may include a plurality of optical waveguides extending in a radial direction, and widths of the plurality of optical waveguides may be different from each other.
- the optical device reduces the radiation cross-section of the single-sided light-emitting optical emitter to half the size of the operating wavelength, thereby having a wide horizontal viewing angle and optically positioned at an appropriate position in the path of the beam emitted from the single-sided light-emitting optical phaser.
- the vertical divergence angle of the steered and emitted beam can be reduced.
- mutual interference between the optical waveguide arrays is sufficiently suppressed by varying the width of the optical waveguide included in the optical waveguide array for making the radiation cross-section by being included in the single-sided light emitting optical radiation array.
- the vertical divergence angle can be adjusted while maintaining the horizontal steering direction of the beam steered and emitted from the single-sided light emitting optical phase arrayer in the horizontal direction.
- the vertical resolution can be improved, and the sensing distance can be increased by reducing the beam spread.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration relationship of an optical device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an optical device in one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an arrangement structure of a single-sided light emitting light emitter that can be implemented on a chip in an optical device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 shows the amount of interference according to the difference in width between optical waveguides when the arrangement interval is equal to the half-wavelength length.
- FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram for the arrangement of a single-sided light-emitting light emitter and a lens in an optical device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the radiation angle of a beam according to the arrangement of a single-sided light-emitting light emitter and a cylindrical lens in an optical device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a view showing a change in the radiation angle according to the position of the single-sided light-emitting light emitter and the lens in the optical device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an optical device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a perspective view of an optical device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a perspective view of an optical device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a plan view and a cross-sectional view of an optical device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an optical device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, a single-sided light emitting optical phase array 101 having a wide horizontal viewing angle and an optical lens 160 capable of adjusting the vertical divergence angle thereof. shows the constitutive relationship of
- the configuration of the optical device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be outlined with reference to FIG. 1 .
- the optical device 100 may include a light source 110 , an optical phase arranger 101 , and a lens 160 .
- the light source 110 may include a laser or LED, and may be implemented on an integrated optical chip including a low refractive index upper and lower cladding layers and a high refractive index waveguide layer.
- the light source 110 may be composed of an independent optical module that transmits an optical signal through an optical fiber.
- the optical signal may be connected to the optical waveguide on the chip through the optical coupler 120 .
- the type, configuration, and structure of the light source 110 are not limited to those disclosed in the above description and drawings, and may include a range that can be easily designed and changed by a person skilled in the art.
- the optical coupler 120 may connect the single-mode optical signal transmitted from the light source 110 through the fiber to the optical waveguide implemented on the chip.
- the optical coupler 120 may be implemented as a grating coupler that connects an optical signal using diffraction of light by varying the refractive index at regular intervals according to an embodiment.
- the single-mode optical fiber may be implemented as an edge coupler that connects the single-mode optical fiber to the cross-section of a waveguide implemented on a chip.
- the optical coupler 120 may be omitted, and in this case, the light source 110 may connect the optical signal transmitted without the optical coupler 120 to the 1xN optical splitter 130 through the optical waveguide.
- the 1xN optical splitter 130 may branch the optical signal transmitted from the optical coupler 120 on the scale of N channels to transmit the optical signal to the 1xN optical phase controller 140 .
- the 1xN optical phase controller 140 may adjust the phase of the optical signal branched into N channels for each channel and sequentially apply a phase difference to each channel by using the function.
- the 1xN optical emitter 150 may radiate the optical signal transmitted to each channel through the phase controller 140 into a free space to form a beam in the free space due to the interference effect by the N channels.
- the lens 160 may adjust the vertical divergence angle while maintaining the horizontal steering angle of the beam emitted from the single-sided light emitter 150 .
- the arrangement structure and inclusion relationship of the components included in the optical device 100 are not limited to the above description and drawings, and may be incorporated into or separated from the components.
- At least one of the light source 110 and the lens 160 may be included in the optical phase aligner 101 , or the optical device 100 excluding the light source 110 , the optical phase aligner 101 . ) and the lens 106 .
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an optical device 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the number of channels (N) is shown as 5 for convenience.
- the optical device 200 includes an optical phase aligner 201 and a lens 250, and the optical phase aligner 201 includes an optical coupler 210 implemented in a silicon integrated optical chip,
- the 1x5 optical splitter 220, the 1x5 optical phase controller 230 and the 1x5 optical emitter 240 may be included, and the lens 250 may be cylindrical.
- the optical coupler 210 combines the externally generated laser beam to the silicon optical waveguide of the silicon integrated optical chip.
- a grating formed to have a constant period and depth suitable for the Bragg condition according to the wavelength and the incident angle in the silicon optical waveguide. It can be made and coupled to a silicon optical waveguide by using diffraction by a grating to a beam at a designed incident angle.
- the 1x5 optical splitter 220 branches the single-mode optical signal on the waveguide coupled by the optical coupler 210 to the N-channel scale of constructive interference conditions using multimode interference, and a 1x5 optical phase controller ( 150) can be transferred.
- the 1x5 optical phase controller 230 provides a means for adjusting the phase difference between channels by adjusting the phase of the optical signal transmitted from the 1x5 optical splitter 220 for each channel.
- a rib-type optical waveguide is formed on a silicon integrated optical chip, p or n-type doping is used in the slab region, and electricity is applied thereto to achieve an electro-optic effect or a thermo-optic effect. ) effect, by adjusting the effective refractive index of the optical waveguide, the phase of the waveguided optical signal can be varied.
- a 1x5 end-fire optical radiator (240) is made by exposing a silicon optical waveguide cross-section with N square cross-sections spaced by half the wavelength to free space.
- the arranged light emitters 240 may have an interval of 775 nm.
- the width of the adjacent waveguide may be designed differently.
- the optical waveguide 240a may be formed of silicon (Si) having a high refractive index through which light guides, and a silica cladding having a low refractive index.
- the N optical waveguides 240a have a structure in which w1, w2, w3, and w4 are repeated as shown in FIG. 3, the thickness is 220 nm, the spacing of the optical waveguides 240a is 775 nm, N is 16, and the width is In the case of 350, 420, 385, and 455 nm, the total width becomes 12 ⁇ m.
- the distance between the optical waveguides 240a is 775 nm and the wavelength used is 1550 nm, so the theoretical viewing angle is 180o.
- the spacing, thickness, and overall width between the optical waveguides 240a may be different from those showing an example according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the optical device 100 can control the width of the optical waveguide 240a of the optical emitter 240 differently to realize a wide horizontal viewing angle and suppress power interference that may occur at the same time.
- FIG. 4 shows the amount of interference according to the difference in width between waveguides when the array spacing is equal to the half-wavelength length. , shows the ratio of optical power transmitted between the optical waveguides 240a.
- the horizontal axis represents the width of the original optical waveguide 240a to which the original signal is applied, and the vertical axis represents the width of the adjacent optical waveguide 240a.
- the value displayed on the map represents the power transmitted to the adjacent optical waveguide 240a due to the interference phenomenon as the ratio of the power of the original signal.
- the width of the circular optical waveguide 240a matches the width of the adjacent optical waveguide 240a, it is transmitted at a level of -5 dB, and decreases as the difference increases.
- the optical waveguide width 240a selected in the above example is selected in consideration of these conditions, and other combinations may be selected.
- the lens 250 is an optical lens positioned in the traveling direction of the beam formed in the free space, and may perform a function of adjusting the vertical divergence angle of the beam.
- the lens 250 may be a cylindrical lens, and while passing through the Farfileld pattern 260 formed in the space by being radiated with the 1xN single-sided light emitting light emitter 240, the shape of the radiated beam change
- the cross-section of the cylindrical lens 250 may have a cylindrical cross-section and a rectangular cross-section in two perpendicular directions.
- a cross-section of a plane including the x and z axes may be a cylindrical cross-section, and a beam incident to the cylindrical cross-section may be focused as a collimated beam.
- a cross section of a plane including the x and y axes may be a quadrangular cross section, and the beam incident to the quadrangular cross section passes in the same direction as the incident direction.
- the optical device 200 has a steered divergent beam 260 emitted from a cross-sectional light emitting light diffuser 240. can be reduced or collimated using a cylindrical cross-section.
- FIG. 5 is a cylindrical lens for adjusting the vertical divergence angle of the beam emitted from the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 and the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 having a wide horizontal steering angle in the optical device 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic diagram of the structure and arrangement of (250).
- FIG. 5A is a plan view of the arrangement structure of the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 and the cylindrical lens 250
- FIG. 5B is a cross-sectional view of the arrangement structure of the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 and the cylindrical lens 250.
- Silicon-based single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 is a silicon (Si, 240a) layer of high refractive index on the silicon oxide (SiO2, 242) layer buried in the SOI (Silico-on-insulator) substrate 243 as a core, and , may be formed by cladding the buried silicon oxide and silicon oxide (SiO2, 241) deposited on the upper surface.
- the single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 is generally composed of a plurality of silicon optical waveguides 240a in an array, so that the width of the optical emitter 240 is tens to hundreds of the optical waveguides 240a. doubles
- the size of the silicon-based single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 is 12 mm, 54 times larger than the thickness of 220 nm of the silicon core.
- the vertical divergence angle has a divergence angle 54 times greater than the horizontal divergence angle.
- the cylindrical lens 250 disposed at a distance d in the silicon-based single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 emits a beam that diverges in the vertical direction. It can be used to reduce the divergence angle or to pass through collimation.
- the cylindrical lens 250 is positioned in the traveling direction of the beam (a convex surface becomes an incident surface, and a plane becomes an emission surface), so that the horizontal viewing angle of the beam is It is possible to effectively reduce the vertical divergence angle without distortion.
- the vertical divergence angle is reduced, so that the straightness of the beam can be increased and the focusing ability can be improved. Furthermore, as the focusing of the beam is improved, the power used can be reduced and the data transmission efficiency can be significantly improved.
- the optical device 200 is a distance (d) between the single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 and the lens 250 and the focal point of the cylindrical lens 250 having a planar convex lens cross-section, f) can be controlled to reduce the vertical divergence angle more effectively.
- FIG. 6 is a view to explain the relationship between the divergence angle and the position of the beam passing through the lens according to the arrangement of the single-sided light emitting light emitter 240 and the cylindrical lens 250 in the optical device 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. it will be shown
- FIG. 6A is a case in which the beam emission position of the single-sided light emitter 240 is disposed farther than the focal point of the cylindrical lens 250 .
- 6B is a case in which the beam emission position of the single-sided light emitter 240 is located at the focal point of the cylindrical lens 250 .
- 6C is a case in which the beam emission position of the single-sided light emitter 240 is disposed close to the focal point of the cylindrical lens 250 .
- the optical device 100 may have the smallest beam divergence angle when the single-sided light emitter 240 is positioned at the focal point of the cylindrical lens 250 as shown in FIG. 6B .
- the beam divergence angle may be increased as shown in FIGS. 6A and 6C .
- the optical device 200 can converge, collimate, and diverge a beam by adjusting the position of the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240, for example, by implementing a converged beam.
- the vertical divergence angle can be reduced.
- the divergence angle of the beam passing through the cylindrical lens can be adjusted.
- FIG. 7 shows changes in vertical and horizontal radiation angles according to the positions of the single-sided light emitter 240 and the cylindrical lens 250 .
- FIG. 7A shows the change in the vertical radiation angle
- FIG. 7B shows the change in the horizontal radiation angle
- the vertical divergence angle increases as the horizontal steering angle increases, so the horizontal steering angle
- the vertical divergence angle is from 30° to 10°.
- the maximum value of the vertical divergence angle in the range of +/ ⁇ 30° gradually decreases from 140mm to 8° and 130 to 6°.
- the divergence angle increases at a horizontal steering angle of 0°, and the maximum divergence angle increases. Accordingly, it can be confirmed that the position of the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 that minimizes the divergence angle exists between 120 mm and 130 mm.
- FIG. 7B shows the change of the horizontal divergence angle according to the position of the single-sided light emitter 240.
- the single-sided light emitter 240 is located at 150 mm, the focal point, the horizontal divergent angle increases as the horizontal steering angle increases.
- the maximum horizontal divergence angle was 11°.
- the cylindrical lens 250 Since the cylindrical lens 250 is symmetrical, it shows a horizontal divergence angle of 11°, which is a maximum value, even at -30°.
- the horizontal divergence angle measured at a horizontal steering angle of 30° becomes smaller, and the maximum horizontal divergence within the +/-30° steering range.
- the angle gradually decreases from 140mm to 10.5°, 130mm to 9.5°, and 120mm to 8.5°.
- the maximum vertical divergence angle and the maximum horizontal divergence angle within the horizontal steering range are determined by determining the distance between the single-sided light emitting light diffuser 240 and the cylindrical lens 250 as an appropriate value.
- the divergence angle can be determined.
- the maximum vertical divergence angle of 95.6° is 6.7°
- the maximum horizontal divergence angle is 10 from 7.6°. ° can be adjusted.
- optical devices 300 , 400 , 500 , and 600 according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 to 10 .
- optical devices 300 , 400 , 500 , and 600 to be described below are similar to those of the aforementioned optical device 200 except that the shapes of the lenses 350 , 450 , 550 and 650 are different.
- the description of the other components may be directly applied to the description of the optical device 200 described above.
- the optical lens 250 of FIG. 2 has a plane symmetrical shape to a plane including the zy axis.
- the lens 350 may be a cylindrical lens 350 in which a surface having a curved surface and a surface opposite to the curved surface are flat.
- the optical device 300 also has a curved surface formed on the lens 350 in the vertical direction, so that the vertical divergence angle can be reduced. does not distort the viewing angle.
- the optical lens 450 has both sides (the plane on which the beam is incident and the beam passes through the lens). emission surface) may form a curved surface.
- the lens 450 may form a curved surface in a vertical direction on both the surface on which the beam is incident and the surface on which the beam is emitted through the lens.
- the optical device 400 according to another embodiment of the present invention also has a curved surface formed on the lens 450 in the vertical direction, so that the vertical divergence angle can be reduced. does not distort the viewing angle.
- the lens 550 has both sides (the plane on which the beam is incident and the beam is emitted through the lens). surface) can form a curved surface.
- the incident surface of the lens 550 may form a concave curved surface.
- the lens 550 may form a curved surface on both a surface on which the beam is incident and a surface on which the beam is emitted through the lens in a vertical direction, and the incident surface may be a concave surface concave in the radiation direction of the beam.
- the curvature of the concave surface may be smaller than the curvature of the radiating surface.
- the optical device 500 also has a curved surface formed on the lens 550 in the vertical direction, so that the vertical divergence angle can be reduced. does not distort the viewing angle.
- the optical device 600 may include a curved cylindrical lens 650 .
- FIG. 1A is a plan view of an embodiment to which a curved cylindrical lens 650 is applied
- FIG. 11B is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment to which the curved cylindrical lens 650 is applied.
- the curved cylindrical lens 650 may have a sectoral arc shape in a horizontal direction, and may be a plano-convex lens in a vertical direction in cross-section. Furthermore, the incident surface may be planar and the emission surface may be convex.
- the incident surface may be a convex surface and the radiation surface may be flat.
- the curved cylindrical lens 650 When the curved cylindrical lens 650 according to the present embodiment is applied, it is possible to maintain a constant distance from the single-sided light-emitting light emitter 240 of the single-sided light-emitting optical phase arrayer 201 irrespective of beam steering, so that the divergence of the beam It has the advantage of being able to keep the angle constant.
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- 광신호를 복수의 채널로 분기하는 광분배기;상기 광분배기로부터 전달된 상기 광신호의 위상을 조절하는 광위상 제어기; 및상기 광위상 제어기로부터 전달된 상기 광신호를 방사하는 단면발광 광방사기;를 포함하는 단면발광 광위상 배열기 및 상기 방사된 광신호의 경로상에 위치하여 수직 발산각을 조절하는 원통형 렌즈를 포함하는 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈는 평면볼록렌즈인 광학 장치.
- 상기 제2항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈의 볼록면이 입사면이되고, 평면이 방사면이 되는 광학 장치.
- 상기 제2항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈의 평면이 입사면이되고, 볼록면이 방사면이 되는 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈의 입사면 및 방사면이 볼록면인 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈의 방사면은 볼록면이고, 입사면은 상기 방사면보다 작은 곡률의 오목면인 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈는 수평 방향으로 부채꼴의 호 형상이고, 상기 원통형 렌즈의 입사면이 평면이며, 방사면이 볼록면인 광학 장치.
- 상기 제7항에 있어서,상기 단면발광 광방사기로부터 상기 입사면까지의 거리가 균일한 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈는 수평 방향으로 부채꼴의 호 형상이고, 상기 원통형 렌즈의 방사면이 평면이며, 입사면이 볼록면인 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 원통형 렌즈와 상기 단면발광 광방사기까지의 거리가 상기 원통형 렌즈의 초점 거리보다 큰 광학 장치.
- 상기 제1항에 있어서,상기 단면발광 광방사기는 방사 방향으로 연장된 복수의 광도파로를 포함하며,상기 복수의 광도파로의 폭이 서로 다른 광학 장치.
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