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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2000
Daniel M. Brown, Madison, AL (US);
MEMS Optical, LLC, Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A multi-aperture irradiation profile shaping system is presented that uses at least one arrangement of at least three apertures associated with a plurality of optical elements, wherein at least one optical element has positive optical power and another one element has negative optical power. The system may be implemented with the apertures in one, two, or three dimensions. The system yields a predetermined arbitrary irradiation profile on a target. The shape of the apertures may be any one of square, rectangular, and hexagonal. The shape of the apertures may also be asymmetric so that a rotation of the aperture shape by 180 degrees around an axis perpendicular to the surface of the aperture yields an inverted aperture shape. The system may be implemented with apertures having symmetric and asymmetric shapes that allow nearly 100% fill factor.