US 11,855,692 B2
Phased-array mapping for beamspace processing and beamspace processor
Janusz Murakowski, Bear, DE (US); and Garrett Schneider, New Castle, DE (US)
Assigned to Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed by PHASE SENSITIVE INNOVATIONS, INC., Newark, DE (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,676.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,996, filed on Jan. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0257729 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 10/25 (2013.01); H04R 9/08 (2006.01); H04B 10/2575 (2013.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); G02B 6/293 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 10/2575 (2013.01) [G02B 6/12019 (2013.01); G02B 6/29344 (2013.01); H04R 9/08 (2013.01); H04B 2210/006 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for mapping radiation beams, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of sensors distributed according to a first pattern and disposed adjacent to a first interference region, the plurality of sensors being configured to capture incoming radiation and convert the incoming radiation to a plurality of signals;
a plurality of radiating elements distributed according to a second pattern that differs from the first pattern and disposed adjacent to a second interference region; and
a plurality of channels connected between the sensors and the radiating elements, each channel connected to a corresponding sensor to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of signals,
wherein each of the radiating elements is in communication with a corresponding one of the plurality of channels to provide an outgoing radiation corresponding to the signal received by the channel, and
wherein the second pattern has a relationship to the first pattern such that first and second beams of incoming radiation in the first interference region captured by the plurality of sensors are respectively mapped to corresponding first and second beams of outgoing radiation emitted by the plurality of radiating elements into the second interference region.