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Optical beam splitter prism

CA 1284909 C · Owner: Gte Laboratories Incorporated · Inventors: Buhrer, Carl F.

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An improved geometry for an optical beam splitter prism permits all input and output beams to be parallel and to remain parallel while the prism is misaligned. It is particularly useful in conjunction with fiber optic couplers and is applicable to splitting with respect to light intensity, polarization or wavelength. This can be achieved through the construction of a beam splitting prism having an additional reflecting surface on one input beam and on one output beam, whereby each of these surfaces are parallel to the beam splitting surface and with two parallel input and output surfaces through which all beams pass so as to make all input and output beams parallel and remain parallel as …

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  • Granted June 18, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 18, 2008.
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FiledOctober 7, 1986
GrantedJune 18, 1991
Term endedJune 18, 2008
Patent numberCA 1284909 C
Classification (IPC)G02B6/36 +2 more

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19871990199319961999200220052008Application filedOct 7, 1986Patent grantedJune 18, 1991Term endedJune 18, 2008

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