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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6342947 | Optical power high accuracy standard enhancement (OPHASE) system By employing a high-repeatability optical switch that transmits input optical power selectively either to the standard or the unit under test (UUT), OPHASE presents a system for performing a rapid, repeatable comparison between the standard and the UUT. F... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6313784 | Millimeter-wave zoom antenna for guilding beamrider hypervelocity missile The millimeter-wave zoom antenna for guiding a beamrider hypervelocity missile uses varying range information derived from the flight of the missile toward the target as control signals for the beam control computer to perform electronically the zooming a... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5593190 | Consistent-force quick latching system The Consistent-Force Quick Latching System (CQLS) provides a means for athing and detaching two objects quickly, using consistent force regardless of the dimensions of the individual objects. The CQLS, usually secured to object A, utilizes a notched cam ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5268785 | All-optical switch utilizing inversion of two-level systems Described here is an all-optical switch having two states, one that absorbs ncident coherent optical radiation and another that amplifies incident coherent optical radiation. The state of switch is changed in response to the passage of an ultra-short coher... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5253311 | Device and method for performing optical coupling without pigtails Micromachined depressions are created at a surface of lithium crystal/wavide composite and suitable optical components are inserted into these depressions and precisely aligned with waveguides so that light can be coupled into and out of the waveguides w... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5227579 | Manifold separation device The booster motors, each attached to and surrounding a centerbody, are mully connected to each other via one or more hollow manifold legs through which propulsive gases flow freely. At a predetermined time, the manifold cutter receives a signal activatin... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5218165 | Pneumatic separation device Upon the occurrence of a preset event, compressed gas is released from a mber and travels to fill a bellows. The bellows inflates and provides the power to eject a force transfer strut from the cavity of one body. The strut being fixedly attached at one ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5210417 | Modulated high sensitivity infrared polarimeter A modulated Faraday rotation signal is produced by passing a linearly polarized laser beam through a semiconductor wafer sample in a modulated magnetic field that is induced in an electromagnet by a sine wave generator and driver coupled thereto. The rota... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5191392 | White light optical transform device The White Light Optical Fourier Transform Device comprises symmetrical wedges of uniaxial birefringent crystal placed on either side of a half-wave plate to induce an angle between the wavefronts of the polarized components of the beam travelling through ... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5097139 | Infrared target generator Pivotable, reflective target elements are used to reflect infrared radiat from blackbody sources and transmit the radiation toward infrared-detecting device to test the capability of the device to detect patterns of infrared radiation under dynamic field... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5064140 | Covert millimeter wave beam projector Van Atta array is used to receive a millimeter wave beam from a beam transmitter located in a missile in flight and retransmit the beam back to its source along its original optical path after the beam is phase conjugated and modulated at a tracking stati... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5060593 | Device for applying adhesive onto fiber and drying before winding A device for applying adhesive onto a fiber, such as an optical fiber, is located between the fiber supply spool and rewinder and comprises a covered cup for holding liquid adhesive, and a drying chamber. The cup has first and second bores for passing the... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5059003 | Fast optical switch and limiter using quantum size effect in metal grain composites A block of composite material includes a dielectric material with a dielectric constant of &3xb5;d =4.66 and which is at least 4 μm thick and has electrically conductive microparticles randomly distributed throughout. The composite material ex... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5041779 | Nonintrusive electro-optic field sensor Utilizing the property of electro-optic crystal which changes its index of refraction in the presence of electric field, such a crystal is placed inside the resonant cavity of a Fabry-Perot type interferometer. Laser light travelling through the cavity an... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5018447 | Device and method for monitoring the presence of an object in space An optically transparent cylinder having a hemispherical cavity at one end hereof and containing at least one light source and one light detector inside the hemispherical cavity utilizes the prismatic effect of the cylinder to locate an object in space. Th... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5009373 | Device and method for detecting and displaying crossover pattern in precision winding In precision winding of fibers onto a bobbin mounted on a mandrel, a suity positioned circuit of lag angle detector, differentiator, threshold and status latch detect the occurrence of a crossover event while a suitably positioned circuit of angle counte... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4968126 | All-optical device and method for remapping images An all-optical polar transform device transforms an image in rectangular rdinates into an image in polar coordinates by reflecting an input image-containing beam from a series of suitably positioned reflective surfaces and finally transmits the beam out ... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4875219 | Phase-conjugate resonator By incorporating a phase-conjugating process (Stimulated Brillouin Scatteg) with a master oscillator power amplifier laser cavity, a new phase conjugate resonator (PCR) is obtained. The PCR utilizes flashlamp-pumped dye lasers and a resonator cavity that... | 10/17/1989 |
