Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Eye examining or testing instrument – Objective type
Patent
1996-04-23
1998-06-16
Mai, Huy
Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
Eye examining or testing instrument
Objective type
351210, A61B 310
Patent
active
057679410
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods for tracking a feature on a target surface and continually providing analog corrections to tracking mirrors in real time by utilizing a low-power incoherent tracking beam to detect the movements of a reference feature on the target and confocal reflectometry to monitor the reflection from the tracking beam's current position are described. The apparatus includes a dithering device for dithering the tracking beam in a first and a second direction with an oscillatory motion, a tracking device for controlling the position of a therapeutic beam relative to a target and for controlling the position of the tracking beam relative to a reference feature, a reflectometer for providing an output signal with a phase corresponding to a phase of the reflected tracking beam, and a signal processor for comparing the phase of the reflectometer output signal to the phases of the oscillatory motion and for controlling the tracking device so that the therapeutic beam to tracks relative to the reference feature.
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Mai Huy
Physical Sciences Inc.
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