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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Wayne Farn, Burlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/18 ;
Abstract
Agile steering of a laser beam using a pair of complementary optical elements which are mechanically translated. The elements consist of pixelated steps of varying depth. Structure is provided to steer a laser beam by translating one element with respect to the other element by a distance that is an integer multiple of the step width.