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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. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
Applicants:
Alex E. Cable, Newton, NJ (US);
Egbert Krause, Burgstaedt, DE;
John Taranto, Oxford, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thorlabs, Inc., Newton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A Shack Hartmann ('SH') wavefront sensor comprising an optical device, such as a wave front dissector including a lenslet array, for transmitting, dissecting and focusing an incoming optical wave, an optical system, including, for example, an optical sensor, for receiving the transmitted incoming optical wave, and a removable kinematic mount for repeatable precision mounting of the optical device to the optical system.