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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald Michael Heiling, Pine Island, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ; G03H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350-371 ; 350-61 ;
Abstract
A flat disk contains a number of holograms made from the interference of a plane wavefront with spherical wavefront modified by a first cylindrical lens. The disk is rotated so that a plane reconstruction wavefront sweeps across the holograms. The resulting reconstructed wavefront is passed through a second cylindrical lens, resulting in a focussed point sweeping across an object surface in one or more substantially straight lines.