Lenslet Ltd.

Civcom Devices & Systems Ltd.

Yehuda Miron

Gal Shabtay

Efraim Goldenberg

Zeev Zalevsky

David Mendlovic

Javier Garcia

Naim Konforti

Boris Alexey Glushko

Aviram Sariel

Leonard Bergstein

Shlomo Eisenbach

A shearing generator comprising: an input light source; an image generator that generates two images of the input light source at an output plane, the image generator comprising a beam splitter that splits light from the input source into at least one pair of interfering light waves at an output thereof, and defines different optical paths for the light propagation of the light waves, said optical paths including at least one phase shifting element that provides for a different phase shift for the two paths.

Shear inducing beamsplitter for interferometric image processing

This application describes an optical switching method for selectively directing an input beam to at least one of two output channels. The input beam impinges on a polarizing beam splitting surface, splitting the input beam into two beam components of different polarizations propagating along different optical paths. These beam components then pass through a controllable polarization rotating medium which selectively affects the polarization of each of the beam components. The beam components are then directed back onto the polarizing beam splitting surface again, producing at least one output beam which propagates toward at least one selected output channel, depending on the state of the medium. The polarizing beam splitting surface is fabricated on a block of the controllable polarization rotating medium, and the input beam also passes through the medium before being split into two beam components by the polarizing beam splitting surface.

Method and device for polarization-based all-optical switching

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Yehuda Miron