High energy laser focal sensor
CA 2235238 C · Owner: Livingston, Peter M. · Inventors: Livingston, Peter M.
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A sensor having an interferometer, and a corresponding method, for use in the sensing of focal shifts in high energy laser beams are provided. The interferometer includes optical elements for generating a reference beam with a known wavefront phase curvature. In a preferred form of the invention the, reference beam is dithered and recombined with a sample beam, to produce a time-varying interference pattern indicative of the focal shift in the high energy laser beam. The interference pattern is focused by a lens onto a detector that produces electrical signals indicative of the detected interference pattern. The electrical signals are synchronously detected to remove the dither-frequency …
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- Filed April 20, 1998 and granted April 4, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 20, 2018.
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