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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Coherent Lasersystems Gmbh & Co. KG, Göttingen, DE;

Inventors:

Frank Simon, Göttingen, DE;

Thomas Wenzel, Göttingen, DE;

Ludwig Schwenger, Hannover, DE;

Paul Van Der Wilt, Götingen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/06 (2014.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01); G02B 27/28 (2006.01); H01L 21/02 (2006.01); H01L 27/12 (2006.01); B23K 103/00 (2006.01); B23K 26/067 (2006.01); B23K 26/073 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/285 (2013.01); B23K 26/0604 (2013.01); B23K 26/067 (2013.01); B23K 26/0608 (2013.01); B23K 26/0648 (2013.01); B23K 26/0738 (2013.01); G02B 27/0905 (2013.01); G02B 27/286 (2013.01); H01L 27/1285 (2013.01); B23K 2103/56 (2018.08); H01L 21/02532 (2013.01); H01L 21/02678 (2013.01); H01L 21/02686 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a laser line projection apparatus, six spaced-apart unpolarized laser-beams are plane-polarized with low loss by a combination of a thin-film polarizer, a reflector, and two polarization rotators. Two beams are polarized in each of three polarization-orientations. Two of the polarization-orientations are orthogonally aligned with each other in P and S orientations. The other polarization-orientation is non-orthogonally aligned in an intermediate orientation. The beams are intensity-homogenized and projected into a line of radiation. Any point on the line of radiation is formed from rays with an angular distribution of polarization-orientation from S to P through the intermediate orientation and back to S through the intermediate orientation.


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