GB1220972A

GB1220972A – Improvements in optical apparatus
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GB1220972A – Improvements in optical apparatus
– Google Patents
Improvements in optical apparatus

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Publication number
GB1220972A

GB1220972A
GB50504/68A
GB5050468A
GB1220972A
GB 1220972 A
GB1220972 A
GB 1220972A
GB 50504/68 A
GB50504/68 A
GB 50504/68A
GB 5050468 A
GB5050468 A
GB 5050468A
GB 1220972 A
GB1220972 A
GB 1220972A
Authority
GB
United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
light beam
deflecting
reflecting
elements
deflecting element
Prior art date
1967-11-18
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)

Expired

Application number
GB50504/68A
Inventor
Kurt Kosanke
Werner Wolfgang Kulcke
Erhard Max
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)

International Business Machines Corp

Original Assignee
International Business Machines Corp
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
1967-11-18
Filing date
1968-10-24
Publication date
1971-01-27

1968-10-24
Application filed by International Business Machines Corp
filed
Critical
International Business Machines Corp

1971-01-27
Publication of GB1220972A
publication
Critical
patent/GB1220972A/en

Status
Expired
legal-status
Critical
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G—PHYSICS

G02—OPTICS

G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS

G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics

G02F1/29—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the position or the direction of light beams, i.e. deflection

G02F1/31—Digital deflection, i.e. optical switching

Abstract

1,220,972. Light deflectors. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. 24 Oct., 1968 [18 Nov., 1967], No. 50504/68. Heading H4F. A light deflector comprises a switchable electro-optic half-wave plate 6, Fig. 2, selectively operable to change the plane of polarization of a linearly polarized light beam 1 by 90 degrees, and a deflecting element 40 constructed of a plurality of transparent layers, adjacent layers having different refractive indices, and positioned so that the light beam is incident at Brewster’s angle and is thus transmitted through or reflected from the deflecting element depending on its plane of polarization. The reflected light beam is aligned with the original direction of the light beam by means of reflecting element 50. In the arrangement as shown in Fig. 2 including multi-layer deflecting elements 40-46, and reflecting elements 50, 56, by selectively energizing electro-optic half-wave crystals 6, 26 and 36 the light beam may be brought to any one of the positions 1f-1n. In a further arrangement, Fig. 3 (not shown) the deflecting elements 41 and 42, and the reflecting elements 51 and 52 of Fig. 2 each comprise one larger deflecting element and reflecting element, respectively. Each deflecting element comprises a ground glass plate having alternate 1 micron layers of titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide placed thereon. The reflecting elements may be curved.

GB50504/68A
1967-11-18
1968-10-24
Improvements in optical apparatus

Expired

GB1220972A
(en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

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Priority Date
Filing Date
Title

DEJ0035062

1967-11-18

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Publication Date

GB1220972A
true

GB1220972A
(en)

1971-01-27

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Title
Priority Date
Filing Date

GB50504/68A
Expired

GB1220972A
(en)

1967-11-18
1968-10-24
Improvements in optical apparatus

Country Status (10)

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Link

US
(1)

US3540794A
(en)

AT
(1)

AT306405B
(en)

BE
(1)

BE722453A
(en)

CH
(1)

CH474921A
(en)

DE
(1)

DE1589980A1
(en)

ES
(1)

ES359944A1
(en)

FR
(1)

FR1599818A
(en)

GB
(1)

GB1220972A
(en)

NL
(1)

NL6816262A
(en)

SE
(1)

SE348613B
(en)

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Title

US4553822A
(en)

*

1981-09-21
1985-11-19
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Optical polarizer having a dielectric multiple layer system

US4960320A
(en)

*

1988-05-16
1990-10-02
Think Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Optical beam splitting method and an optical beam splitting/modulation method

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1971-03-19
1972-11-21
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Photocomposing machine

US3743378A
(en)

*

1971-07-30
1973-07-03
Ampex
Optical intensity matching means for two light beams

EP0062006A3
(en)

*

1981-03-30
1985-12-04
Asulab S.A.
Method and apparatus for repeatedly deflecting a beam of coherent radiation

EP0435296B1
(en)

*

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Optical space switch and network with such optical space switches

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Title

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(en)

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(en)

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1957-05-08
1962-03-27
Alvin M Marks
Light polarizing device

US3401593A
(en)

*

1965-10-11
1968-09-17
Altman Gerald
Projection system for reflected images utilizing polarized light

1967

1967-11-18
DE
DE19671589980
patent/DE1589980A1/en
active
Pending

1968

1968-09-04
US
US757302A
patent/US3540794A/en
not_active
Expired – Lifetime

1968-10-16
CH
CH1543168A
patent/CH474921A/en
not_active
IP Right Cessation

1968-10-17
BE
BE722453D
patent/BE722453A/xx
unknown

1968-10-24
GB
GB50504/68A
patent/GB1220972A/en
not_active
Expired

1968-10-29
FR
FR1599818D
patent/FR1599818A/fr
not_active
Expired

1968-11-04
AT
ATA10707/68A
patent/AT306405B/en
not_active
IP Right Cessation

1968-11-07
ES
ES359944A
patent/ES359944A1/en
not_active
Expired

1968-11-13
SE
SE15358/68A
patent/SE348613B/xx
unknown

1968-11-15
NL
NL6816262A
patent/NL6816262A/xx
unknown

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party

Publication number
Priority date
Publication date
Assignee
Title

US4553822A
(en)

*

1981-09-21
1985-11-19
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Optical polarizer having a dielectric multiple layer system

US4960320A
(en)

*

1988-05-16
1990-10-02
Think Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Optical beam splitting method and an optical beam splitting/modulation method

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Publication number
Publication date

SE348613B
(en)

1972-09-04

ES359944A1
(en)

1970-06-16

BE722453A
(en)

1969-04-01

FR1599818A
(en)

1970-07-20

NL6816262A
(en)

1969-05-20

DE1589980A1
(en)

1971-03-18

CH474921A
(en)

1969-06-30

AT306405B
(en)

1973-02-15

US3540794A
(en)

1970-11-17

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