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Title: System and method for focal-plane angular-spatial illuminator/detector (fasid) design for improved graded index lenses

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method for imaging an optical signal received by a graded index (GRIN) optical element to account for known variations in a graded index distribution of the GRIN optical element. The method may involve using a plurality of optical detector elements to receive optical rays received by the GRIN optical element at a plane, where the plane forms a part of the GRIN optical element or is downstream of the GRIN optical element relative to a direction of propagation of the optical rays. The optical rays are then traced to a plurality of additional specific locations on the plane based on the known variations in the graded index distribution of the GRIN optical element. A processor may be used to determine information on both an intensity and an angle of the received optical rays at each one of the plurality of specific locations on the plane of the GRIN optical element.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1576334
Patent Number(s):
10408705
Application Number:
15/850,401
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES
G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2017 Dec 21
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Feigenbaum, Eyal, and Bude, Jeffrey D. System and method for focal-plane angular-spatial illuminator/detector (fasid) design for improved graded index lenses. United States: N. p., 2019. Web.
Feigenbaum, Eyal, & Bude, Jeffrey D. System and method for focal-plane angular-spatial illuminator/detector (fasid) design for improved graded index lenses. United States.
Feigenbaum, Eyal, and Bude, Jeffrey D. Tue . "System and method for focal-plane angular-spatial illuminator/detector (fasid) design for improved graded index lenses". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1576334.
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Method and system for measurement of a characteristic of lens
patent, November 2002


Lens Having an Extended Range of Focus and Method of Making the Same
patent-application, July 2014