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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2009
Ty Aaby Larsen, Everett, WA (US);
Henry V. Fletcher, Iii, Everett, WA (US);
Ty Aaby Larsen, Everett, WA (US);
Henry V. Fletcher, III, Everett, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Presented is a low-power retro-reflective communication system that reflects modulated light back in substantially the same direction as the light source using a retro-reflector. The light modulator in the retro-reflector modulates the light in response to a stimulus, such as an electrical communications stimulus or an environmental stimulus. In embodiments, the retro-reflector is a corner-cube retro-reflector and the modulator is one of the reflecting surfaces, or a spherical retro-reflector and the light modulator is a variably reflecting backing.
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