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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:
May. 12, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan H Paxton, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Theodore C Salvi, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
331 / ; 331 / ; 331 / ;
Abstract
An unstable optical resonator with self-imaging aperture having at least two reflecting surfaces and a primary outcoupling aperture in optical alignment with each other. In the resonator the result of a single round-trip propagation is to image the primary aperture at its own plane. The self-imaging condition is met when a pass through the resonator, starting at the outcoupling aperture, produces an infinite Fresnel number.