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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:
Sep. 05, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeff C Adams, Renton, WA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359856 ; 359850 ; 359857 ; 359618 ; 359140 ; 25022712 ; 372 25 ; 372700 ;
Abstract
A system that modifies a pulsed or continuous wave light beam of arbitrary frequency bandwidth facilitating optical pulse synthesis and pulse compression while largely conserving light energy. An electro-optic deflector scans a light pulse through an optical system which provides a varying optical path length that is a function of deflection angle. The input light pulse is temporally segmented in incremental or differential portions, each of which has a different transit time to some image plane at the output. The temporal portions are then recombined at the output to produce a new optical signal.