173 Contact and back of mirror for back emitting laser grid
174 Contact and back of mirror for back emitting laser grid
175 Redirected beams from laser grid
Embodiment 8 for US Pat App Pub 2017/0033535
FIG. 18 shows an eighth embodiment. In FIG. 18, a patterned diffractive grating 184 (this is the opposite angular pattern than FIG. 17's DOE) is placed or etched over the emission points 181 on the backside of the laser wafer in a back emitting VCSEL design which directs the lasing points outward 185 from the grid. From the lens it looks like all the lasers are coming from a single point 186 behind the chip to form a virtual point source where a macro lens 187 can be used to collimate the beam from the virtual converged source behind the chip. FIG. 18 shows:
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- 181 Contact and back of mirror for back emitting laser grid
- 182 Aperture creating laser characteristics
- 183 Laser Beam from laser grid
- 184 Surface of Diffractive Optical Element (DOE) angled for specific total beam grid characteristics
- 185 Redirected beams from laser grid
- 186 Converged virtual light source from all beams as seen from lens 187