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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:
Feb. 27, 1990

Filed:

Mar. 02, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kimio Tatsuno, Tokyo, JP;

Carolus J van der Poel, Eindhoven, NL;

Gerard A Acket, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignees:

Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350421 ; 35016212 ; 35016215 ; 350448 ; 369112 ;
Abstract

An optical device includes a phase-locked diodelaser array (10), a collimator lens (17), and behind the collimator lens a prism system (30, 34) of at least one prism to broaden the far field radiation pattern in the lateral plane (XY) and a spatial filter (19) to select a favored mode. The laser radiation is concentrated into a single, round and diffraction limited spot (V).


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