Methods and systems for spatially distributed strobing comprising a control circuit to provide a strobe signal to activate a first subset of the detector pixels of a detector array while leaving a second subset of the detector pixels inactive

A Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) apparatus, comprising:

• an emitter configured to emit a first optical signal and a second optical signal with an emitter cycle therebetween;
• a detector array comprising a plurality of detector pixels configured to be activated and deactivated for respective strobe windows during the emitter cycle;
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• a control circuit configured to apply a first strobe window within the emitter cycle to a first subset of the plurality of detector pixels at a first time delay within the emitter cycle and to apply a second strobe window within the emitter cycle to a second subset of the plurality of detector pixels at a second time delay, different from the first time delay, within the emitter cycle.

A Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) apparatus, comprising:

• an emitter configured to emit a first optical signal and a second optical signal with an emitter cycle therebetween;
• a detector array comprising a plurality of detector pixels configured to be activated and deactivated for respective strobe windows during the emitter cycle;
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• a control circuit configured to provide a strobe signal to activate a first subset of the plurality of detector pixels and a second subset of the plurality of detector pixels within the emitter cycle at different respective time delays with respect to the first optical signal.