Optical: systems and elements – Mirror – With mirror surface of varied radius
Patent
1993-01-29
1995-12-05
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optical: systems and elements
Mirror
With mirror surface of varied radius
359846, 359868, 372 99, G02B 508
Patent
active
054734754
ABSTRACT:
A technique is disclosed herein in which a circular optical beam, for example a copper vapor laser (CVL) beam, is converted to a beam having a profile other than circular, e.g. square or triangular. This is accomplished by utilizing a single optical mirror having a reflecting surface designed in accordance with a specifically derived formula in order to make the necessary transformation, without any substantial light loss and without changing substantially the intensity profile of the circular beam which has a substantially uniform intensity profile. In this way, the output beam can be readily directed into the dye cell of a dye laser.
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Seppala Lynn
Sweatt William C.
Bovernick Rodney B.
Daubenspeck William C.
Moser William R.
Sanghavi Hemang
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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