United Technologies Corporation

Lawrence E Schumtz

Craig M Schiller

A method and apparatus for inducing deflections in a collimated optical beam using a microptic multiplet (MOM) optical system wherein a first microptic lens module (MLM) receives a collimated optical beam and provides it to a second microptic lens module (MLM) whose lenslet optic axes are displaced relative to the lenslet optic axes of the first MLM by an amount yielding the desired optical beam deflection.

Method and apparatus for deflecting an optical beam

A optical system having optically encoded information includes a microptic multiplet (MOM) optical system on compact arrays or cards for both secure (encrypted) and non-secure applications where the presence or position of optical micro-lenses is indicative of the encoded information. The system is characterized by a first microptic lens module (MLM) that has data optically encoded thereon based on the position of a lenslet in a lenslet cell. One or more additional microptic lens modules can be used as a key(s) to interpret the data.

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Watertown, CT, United States of America

Lawrence E Schumtz