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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Gregory P Crawford, Providence, RI (US);
Thomas G Fiske, Campbell, CA (US);
Louis D Silverstein, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Methods for making plates which have columnar features approximately in the direction of light propagation which are capable of total internal reflection, a controllable numeric aperture (NA) at input and output surfaces, rotational azimuthal averaging and translation of the object plane from a back surface of the plate to a front surface of the plate and are optical equivalent of a FOFP. These plates are made from a range of materials including a variety of monomer or polymer networks. The resultant plates contain adjacent areas with differing refractive indices which result in a substrate containing a plurality of cylindrical features whose boundaries are defined by a discontinuity of refractive indices wherein the index of refraction within the cylindrical features is greater than the index of refraction at the boundaries and external to the cylindrical features.