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patent · US9529079

Multiplexed multichannel photodetector

27 December 2016

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Abstract

A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system can emit light toward an environment and detect responsively reflected light to determine a distance to one or more points in the environment. The reflected light can be detected by a plurality of plurality of photodiodes that are reverse-biased using a high voltage. Signals from the plurality of reverse-biased photodiodes can be amplified by respective transistors and applied to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The signal fro...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2015-03-26
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2016-12-27
Inventors
Pierre Yves Droz; Samuel William Lenius; Google LLC