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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:
Aug. 15, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey B Sampsell, Plano, TX (US);
Terrance G McDonald, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; H01S / ; H01J / ; G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9616 ; 350 9613 ; 350 9614 ; 350 9618 ; 350 9620 ; 350 9621 ; 350 9622 ; 350356 ; 332-751 ; 250227 ; 455612 ; 455613 ; 455617 ;
Abstract
A crossbar switch (200) with bifurcated optical fibers (271, . . . , 286) having equivalent ends connected to transmitters (251, . . . , 254) and receivers (261, . . . , 264) and single ends in a linear array (245) that is adjacent to a linear micro lens array (240) and a linear spatial light modulator (230) with light emitted from a single end reflected back into the single end for undeflected pixels in the spatial light modulator (230) and lost for deflected pixels.