Optical streak camera
CA 2114856 A1 · Owner: Corkum, Paul B. · Inventors: Corkum, Paul B.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An optical streak camera for detecting a light signal representing an optical event occurring in an ultra-short time interval comprising;, a photocathode for emitting electrons; means for propagating optical radiation in free space in a predetermined region that includes the photocathode, said means for providing electrons with velocitythat depends upon the time at which they were emitted within the region of radiation; and means for collecting the electrons and for displaying an output signal characteristic of the distribution of their velocities.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 3, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 3, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 3, 2016.
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