Tilted image plane lidar

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9910155
APP PUB NO 20160306029A1
SERIAL NO

14869448

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Embodiments herein provide for improved range response in lidar systems. In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a laser, and a detector. First optics direct light from the laser on a beam path along a first optical axis of the first optics. Second optics image the light from the beam path onto a second plane that is substantially normal to the first plane. The second optics have a second optical axis that differs from the first optical axis. The first and the second optical axes lie in a same first plane. A first line in the first plane intersects a second line in the second plane at an acute angle. The first line is perpendicular to the first optical axis. A spatial filter configured in or near the second plane filters the light from the second optics onto the detector.

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ARETE ASSOCIATES9301 CORBIN AVENUE SUITE 2000 NORTHRIDGE CA 91324

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Fetzer, Gregory J Berthoud, US 5 283
Kraus, Thomas Laurence Springfield, US 2 10
Lundquist, Paul B Tucson, US 20 116
Marnon, Michael Francis Washington, US 4 10
Vercillo, Richard Tucson, US 6 142

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