Optical device having two scanning components, one configured to compensate for field distortion

1. An optical device, comprising:

a first lens;

a first scanning component to receive an optical beam having a first beam size and to scan the first lens with the optical beam,

wherein the first lens is to increase a beam size of the optical beam to a second beam size, wherein the second beam size is greater than the first beam size;

a second lens to receive the optical beam having the second beam size; and

a second scanning component to receive, from the second lens, the optical beam having the second beam size and to scan a field of view with the optical beam having the second beam size;

wherein the first lens and the second lens are positioned between the first scanning component and the second scanning component; and

wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component is configured to compensate for field distortion of the optical beam.

2. The optical device of claim 1 , wherein the second lens is to collimate the optical beam having the second beam size.

3. The optical device of claim 1 , wherein the first lens has a first focal point and wherein the first scanning component is positioned at the first focal point.

4. The optical device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between the first lens and the second lens is equal to a sum of a focal length of the first lens and a focal length of the second lens.

5. The optical device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a diffractive optical element, wherein a distance between the first lens and the diffractive optical element is equal to a focal length of the first lens.

6. The optical device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component comprises a dual-axis angular scanning component.

7. The optical device of claim 1 , wherein the first lens, prior to increasing the beam size of the optical beam to the second beam size, is to decrease the beam size of the optical beam to a third beam size,

wherein the third beam size is less than the second beam size.

8. An optical device, comprising:

a first lens;

a first scanning component to receive an optical beam and to scan the first lens with the optical beam,

wherein the first scanning component comprises an angular scanning component having a first axis of orientation;

a second lens to receive the optical beam; and

a second scanning component to receive, from the second lens, the optical beam,

wherein the second scanning component comprises an angular scanning component having a second axis of orientation, wherein the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis, and

wherein the second scanning component is to scan a two-dimensional field of view with the optical beam;

wherein the first lens and the second lens are positioned between the first scanning component and the second scanning component; and

wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component is configured to compensate for field distortion of the optical beam.

9. The optical device of claim 8 , wherein the first lens has a first focal point and wherein the first scanning component is positioned at the first focal point.

10. The optical device of claim 8 , wherein the first lens is to increase a beam size of the optical beam, and wherein the second lens is to collimate the optical beam.

11. The optical device of claim 8 , further comprising:

at least one of a filter or a diffractive optical element, wherein the at least one of the filter or the diffractive optical element is positioned between the first lens and the second lens.

12. The optical device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component includes the first scanning component and the second scanning component.

13. An optical device, comprising:

a lens system;

a first scanning component to receive an optical beam and to scan the lens system with the optical beam;

a second scanning component to receive the optical beam from the lens system and to scan a field of view with the optical beam,

wherein the lens system is positioned between the first scanning component and the second scanning component; and

wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component is configured to compensate for field distortion of the optical beam.

14. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein the lens system has a first focal point and a second focal point,

wherein the first focal point and the second focal point are on opposite sides of the lens system, and

wherein the first scanning component is positioned at the first focal point, and the second scanning component is positioned at the second focal point.

15. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component comprises a single-axis angular scanning component.

16. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein at least one of the first scanning component or the second scanning component comprises a dual-axis angular scanning component.

17. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein the lens system is configured to increase or decrease a size of the optical beam.

18. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein the lens system is configured to translate an angular offset of the optical beam to a spatial offset of the optical beam.

19. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein the lens system comprises at least one of a filter or a diffractive optical element to modify the optical beam based on an angular offset of the optical beam.

20. The optical device of claim 13 , wherein the lens system is to increase a beam size of the optical beam from a first beam size to a second beam size, and

wherein the second scanning component is to receive, from the lens system, the optical beam having the second beam size and to scan the field of view with the optical beam having the second beam size.