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Optical analyzers of polarization properties

US7206069B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 29, 2004
Grant dateApr 17, 2007
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Expiry dateFeb 16, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B27/28
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A passive optical system substantially simultaneously separates light received at an optical input into three or more output light beams on optical outputs. The output light beams may have intensities that are proportional to intensities of optical projections of the received light onto three or more basis vectors of a tetrahedral basis set of a Stokes space. The system includes either multiple partial polarization splitters or multiple optical interferometers.

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