Patent ID: 11892565
Assignee: SILC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the waveguide array includes N steering waveguides that each carries a portion of the LIDAR output signal to a facet,
the steering waveguides each being associated with an index j,
the index j being an integer from 1 to N,
a phase of the portion of the LIDAR output signal carried in steering waveguide j is fo+(j-1)f at the facet of the steering waveguide,
f is the phase differential between neighboring steering waveguides, and
fo is the phase of the portion of the LIDAR output signal in the steering waveguide j=1 at the facet of the steering waveguide j=1.