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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2010
Jeffrey T. Meade, Arden, CA;
Arsen R. Hajian, Waterloo, CA;
Bradford B. Behr, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Andrew T. Cenko, Waterloo, CA;
Jeffrey T. Meade, Arden, CA;
Arsen R. Hajian, Waterloo, CA;
Bradford B. Behr, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Andrew T. Cenko, Waterloo, CA;
Tornado Medical Systems, Inc., Toronto, ON, CA;
Abstract
An optical slicer for generating an output spot comprising an image compressor which receives a substantially collimated input beam and compresses the beam, wherein the input beam, if passed through a focusing lens, produces an input spot; an image reformatter which receives the compressed beam to reformat the beam into a plurality of sliced portions of the compressed beam and vertically stacks the portions substantially parallel to each other; and an image expander which expands the reformatted beam to produce a collimated output beam which, if passed through the focusing lens, produces the output spot that is expanded in a first dimension and compressed in a second dimension relative to the input spot.