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Our patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) transforms photonics into a digital platform, unlocking breakthroughs in sensing, optical switching, and communication. With more than 160 patents and growing commercial traction, Lumotive is delivering the world’s first digital platform for light — and redefining what’s possible in the optical age.

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Lumotive's LCM Optical Semiconductor Platform Enables First Solid-State 180° dTOF LiDAR at 30 FPS

Pioneer in Programmable Optical Semiconductors Unlocks New Capabilities with Wide Field-of-View, High Frame Rate and Software-Defined Sensing for Outdoor Robotics, Safety Equipment...

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FIGURE 1. 180° LiDAR for physical AI software-defined images.

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Programmable optics turn sensors into perception platforms for LiDAR

LiDAR needs adaptive sensors to meet the needs of physical artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Optics

The programmable optics revolution

Active metasurfaces are ushering in a new era of programmable optics.

From warehouse floors to the cloud, Lumotive’s LCM technology bridges the physical and digital worlds through software-defined light.

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Strategic investors bet on programmable optics

Optical breakthroughs are powering the next era of autonomy, infrastructure, and AI.

Kevin Camera, VP of Product at Lumotive.

Optics

Q&A with Lumotive’s Kevin Camera

Lumotive’s VP of Product Kevin Camera chats with Laser Focus World about the company, its light-control metasurface chips, and what it means for the LiDAR realm.

Lumotive’s M30 lidar module (the production version of the M20 prototype featured in the company’s Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program and shown here) delivers 10+ m of range in bright sunlight, targeting small-form-factor lidar in robotics, industrial automation, and automotive applications. Lumotive’s U30 device will use the same architecture to deliver a tiny lidar for use in smartphones.

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Lumotive’s Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program to accelerate adoption of tiny lidar in smartphones, other devices

The program includes Lumotive’s M20 solid-state lidar evaluation kit, product customization, and technical support: Application deadline is March 31, 2021.

An optical metamaterial surface plus liquid crystal form Lumotive's beam-steering approach for automotive lidar. This image is from Lumotive's website (www.lumotive.com).

Optics

Collaboration forms on metasurface approach to beam steering for lidar

Lumotive has an LCOS chip producer, Himax Technologies, for fabrication of its silicon-based metasurface beam-steerer.

FIGURE 1. An illustration of liquid-crystal metasurface (LCM) beam steering depicts its operation. The incident light is TM-polarized. Shown here, the LCM steers to two different output angles (a and b), determined by the spatial frequency of the phase-modulation pattern applied to the array of tunable resonators on the LCM (c and d). Higher spatial frequencies steer the output beam closer to the incident beam.

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Optics for Automotive Lidar: Metasurface beam steering enables solid-state, high-performance lidar

A large-aperture, large-field-of-view dynamic liquid crystal metasurface beam steerer for automotive lidar has no moving parts.

An optical metamaterial surface plus liquid crystal comprise Lumotive's newly announced beam-steering approach for automotive lidar. This image is from Lumotive's website (www.lumotive.com).

Lasers & Sources

Lumotive unveils metasurface-based lidar systems for autonomous vehicles

The large-aperture Liquid Crystal Metasurface (LCM) scanning lidar system has long range and a 120-degree field of view.

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