How to decrease the VL53L0X FOV?

[Diego Barile]

Posted on October 23, 2017 at 16:13

Hello.

Does anybody knows if is possible to decrease the VL53L0X FOV putting in front of It a short piece of plastic (dark?) pipe?

Could it works enough fine or the cross-talk will become unacceptable?

Any other options to decrease the detecting FOV?

Thanks in advance.

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[John E KVAM]

Posted on January 02, 2018 at 19:48

Unfortunately there is no way to reduce the FOV. One would have to put a lens over the receive side of the chip and that would be very expensive.

I did have one customer who used two sensors side by side and at slightly different angles. As the target moved from right to left, the one sensor would get a range, when the second sensor also got a range, the machine 'knew' the leading edge of the target was in the small over-lapping FoV.

But this wouldn't work for everyone.

- john