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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2006
Applicant:
Paul Richard Herz, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventor:
Paul Richard Herz, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Assignee:
Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/11 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for the temporal and phase modulation of beams through a series of electronically controlled grating modulators, as acousto optic devices (AODs), is provided where incoming electromagnetic radiation may be advanced or retarded by introducing a time delay of the associated optical phase fronts and implementing a varying chirped wave on an AOD.