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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1992
Arnold W Lungershausen, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Stephen C Arnold, Honeoye Falls, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A holographic recording of the interference between an object laser beam and a reference laser beam is used to combine the amplitudes of multiple input laser beams which are conjugates of the reference beam, into a single output laser beam which is a conjugate of the object beam. An optical device in the form of a trapezoidal prism has an entrance top face with a diffusion surface, and an exit base face with a holographic recording made on a light sensitive recording medium of an interference pattern of an object beam incident on the diffusion surface and scattered over the recording medium, in interference with a reference beam simultaneously incident to a side of the prism onto the same medium. Multiple beams, conjugate to the reference beam, are positioned to be incident on the holographic recording, the hologram being configured to diffract the multiple beams and cause them to be combined at the diffusion surface to form a single output beam, conjugate to the original object beam and having an amplitude which is proportional to the sum of the separate amplitudes of the combined beams.