Method and system for optical data communication via scanning ladar

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, D Cook… - US Patent 11,092,676, 2021 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments that employ controllable delays
between successive ladar pulses in order to discriminate between “own” ladar pulse …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic laser control for scan line shot scheduling

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be
controlled to maximize the firing of laser pulse shots per scan line of the scannable mirror …

Ladar system with intelligent selection of shot patterns based on field of view data

LC Dussan, A Steinhardt, JD Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Abstract Ladar System with Intelligent Selection of Shot Patterns Based on Field of View
Data A ladar transmitter that transmits ladar pulses toward a plurality of range points in a …

Hyper temporal lidar with controllable variable laser seed energy

J Greene, J Benscoter, L Dussan, A Steinhardt… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system comprises an optical amplification laser source, a mirror, and a control circuit.
The optical amplification laser source can generate laser pulses for transmission as laser …

Hyper temporal lidar with controllable pulse bursts to resolve angle to target

J Greene, J Benscoter, L Dussan, A Steinhardt… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system can include a lidar transmitter and a lidar receiver, where the lidar transmitter
controllably transmits a pulse burst toward a target in a field of view and where the lidar …

Hyper temporal lidar using multiple matched filters to determine target obliquity

L Dussan, A Steinhardt, J Benscoter… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system comprises a photodetector circuit and a signal processing circuit. The
photodetector circuit comprises an array of pixels for sensing incident light. The signal pro …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic laser control and shot order simulation

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to fire
laser pulse shots from the laser source toward targeted range points via the scannable …

Hyper temporal lidar with dynamic control of variable energy laser source

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a variable energy laser source and transmits laser pulses
produced by the variable energy laser source toward range points in a field of view can use …

Hyper temporal lidar with pulse burst scheduling

J Greene, J Benscoter, L Dussan, A Steinhardt… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system includes a lidar transmitter and a control circuit. The lidar transmitter can
controllably fire a plurality of laser pulse shots into a field of view, and the control circuit can …

Hyper temporal lidar with detection-based adaptive shot scheduling

P Feru, L Dussan, J Benscoter, A Liang… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to
adaptively schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first …