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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2022
Applicant:
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Stanley Pau, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Brady, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/18 (2006.01); G02B 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/1814 (2013.01); G02B 5/1842 (2013.01); G02B 1/02 (2013.01); G02B 2005/1804 (2013.01);
Abstract
A diffractive optical element configured as a lens having such an aperture function that causes light incident onto such lens to form a multiplicity of focal points (whether real or virtual) that do not lie along the same axis transverse to the surface of such lens, thereby simultaneously forming a multiplicity of spatially-independent optical images distributed transversely to a normal drawn to a surface of such lens. A method of using such diffractive optical element.