Angular shear plate

Patent · Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009

OSTI ID:1012608

Ruda, Mitchell C ^[1]; Greynolds, Alan W ^[1]; Stuhlinger, Tilman W ^[1]

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1. Tucson, AZ

One or more disc-shaped angular shear plates each include a region thereon having a thickness that varies with a nonlinear function. For the case of two such shear plates, they are positioned in a facing relationship and rotated relative to each other. Light passing through the variable thickness regions in the angular plates is refracted. By properly timing the relative rotation of the plates and by the use of an appropriate polynomial function for the thickness of the shear plate, light passing therethrough can be focused at variable positions.

• Research Organization: Applied Energetics, Inc (Tucson, AZ)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC26-04NT42138
• Assignee: Applied Energetics, Inc (Tucson, AZ)
• Patent Number(s): 7,561,346
• Application Number: 11/622,919
• OSTI ID: 1012608
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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