Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning – General aspects of spm probes – their manufacture – or their... – Probe tip arrays
Patent
1988-07-17
1988-09-13
Sikes, William L.
Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning
General aspects of spm probes, their manufacture, or their...
Probe tip arrays
850 64, 850 9615, 850 9624, 244 316, G02B 600, F41G 700
Patent
active
047704829
ABSTRACT:
A system for rapidly scanning a remote field of regard with transmitter laser beams comprises an optical system having a focal plane, a plurality of lasers capable of being sequentially fired, and a like number of optical fibers coupled at one end to the respective laser outputs. The opposite fiber ends lie in the focal plane of the optical system and are aligned in the direction of the height of the field of regard. The beams move rapidly across the width of the field of regard simultaneously with sequential operation of the lasers, thus illuminating the entire area of interest in a minimum of time.
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Leonard Donald A.
Sweeney Harold E.
Gilbert Douglas M.
GTE Government Systems Corporation
Healy Brian M.
Lawler John F.
Sikes William L.
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