Device for optical switching by fluid displacement and a device for the composition of a line of points
US4818052A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 21, 1987 |
| Grant date | Apr 4, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 21, 2007 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/357
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a device for switching a light beam, the conditions of propagation of the beam are modified locally under electric control by interposing on the beam path a fluid which modifies the conditions of refraction of the medium traversed by the beam.
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