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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:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Andrew Clarkson, Southampton, GB;
Anthony Brian Neilson, Glenhuntly, AU;
David Colin Hanna, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359629 ; 359636 ; 359637 ; 359855 ; 359856 ; 359857 ;
Abstract
A beam shaping device for a laser device is provided. The laser device has a beam with a first beam quality factor M.sub.x.sup.2 in a first direction, and a second beam quality factor M.sub.y.sup.2 in an orthogonal direction. The beam shaping device includes at least one reflecting surface diverting at least a first part of the beam in order to reconfigure at least one of the first and second beam qualities M.sub.x.sup.2 and M.sub.y.sup.2.