Patent 11579370 was granted and assigned to ANALOG PHOTONICS LLC on February, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Aspects of the present disclosure describe large scale steerable optical switched arrays that may be fabricated on a common substrate including many thousands or more emitters that may be arranged in a curved pattern at the focal plane of a lens thereby allowing the directional control of emitted light and selective reception of reflected light suitable for use in imaging, ranging, and sensing applications including accident avoidance.