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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2011
Ciaran John Patrick O'connor, Bozeman, MT (US);
Shane Hilliard, Bozeman, MT (US);
Leif Summerfield, Bozeman, MT (US);
Ciaran John Patrick O'Connor, Bozeman, MT (US);
Shane Hilliard, Bozeman, MT (US);
Leif Summerfield, Bozeman, MT (US);
Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus can include a first beam cropper configured to crop a portion of a radiation pulse having a first spot size to form an intermediate cropped radiation pulse having an intermediate cropped spot with an intermediate cropped spot size less than the first spot size; and a second beam cropper configured to crop the intermediate cropped spot to form a second cropped radiation pulse having a second cropped spot with a second cropped spot size less the intermediate cropped spot size.