1974-10-11
1980-01-22
Henry, Jon W.
G02B 518
Patent
active
041847466
ABSTRACT:
A transmissive diffractive phase-grating which substantially nulls the zeroth order of the light-source or substantially nulls the undiffracted transmission of generally all frequencies of visible light and which diverts and distributes substantially all of the so nulled light into pairs of first-order diffractive or spectral images of the original visible light-source, with each such diffractive image containing close to one half of the energy of the so nulled zeroth-order of light. The phase-grating consists of a transparent parallel-sided plate of glass or glass-like plate such as "Plexiglass" or the like having an uninterrupted polished planar surface on one side thereof and having the other side thereof composed of two generally equal sets of polished parallel planar surface-portions of small areas alternative with each other in generally uniform array, with the spacing of one set from the opposite surface of the plate differing from the spacing of the other set from said opposite surface by approximately 6000 Angstrom units;--with the areas of such alternating surface-portions being generally equal. The grating may also have each of its opposite sides composed of such alternating high and low areas, with the low areas on each side being juxtaposed to the low areas of the other side;--and in such case the alternating areas on each side are approximately 3000 Angstrom units apart from each other, so that the difference in the thickness of the plate in the juxtaposed areas will be approximately 6000 Angstrom units.
By reducing the difference in wall-thickness of the plate in the two sets of areas thereof to approximately 5000 or 5100 Angstrom units, approximately one-third of the light impinging on the light-receiving side of the grating may be sent forth from the opposite side thereof as an undiffracted zeroth-order image, and with a pair of first-order diffracted spectral images flanking such zeroth-order image, and with the intensity of such three images approximately equal, thereby producing a triad of images with the central one being of the zeroth-order and the two flanking ones being of the first order.
The combination of such phase-grating and a television picture-tube, in which the phase-grating is operatively juxtaposed to the face of the picture-tube, with the lines or rows of high and low areas of the grating generally parallel to or otherwise operatively oriented to the scan-lines or matrix of the picture-tube, and at such distance from the picture-surface of the tube that the two diffractive images of the information areas on the picture-surface of the tube will be spaced from each other to the maximum extent possible without overlap
REFERENCES:
patent: 2746030 (1956-05-01), Schrecongost
patent: 3095475 (1963-06-01), Brake
patent: 3843239 (1974-10-01), Tsunoda et al.
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