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Condenser for illuminating a ring field

US5361292A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1993
Grant dateNov 1, 1994
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2013

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG21K2201/06
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A series of segments of a parent aspheric mirror having one foci at at a si-point source of radiation and the other foci at the radius of a ring field have all but one or all of their beams translated and rotated by sets of mirrors such that all of the beams pass through the real entrance pupil of a ring field camera about one of the beams and fall onto the ring field radius as a coincident image as an arc of the ring field.

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