Apparatus for adjusting an optical axis including a laser beam source and a beam shaping prism
US5237457A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 3, 1991 |
| Grant date | Aug 17, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 3, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B7/22
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An optical axis adjusting apparatus is provided and includes a laser beam source, a beam shaping prism for shaping a laser beam of elliptical flux emitted from the laser beam source into a laser beam of circular flux, and an angle adjusting device which adjusts the angular direction of the outgoing laser beam emitted from the shaping prism.
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