Accession Number:

ADD012133

Title:

Wide Angle Optical Transmitter/Receiver.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Hedin,Raymond C.
• Hewitt,Fred G.

Report Date:

1985-12-17

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

A novel optical transmitterreceiver device is described which comprises a source of radiation providing a collimated coherent light beam, such as a laser beam, along a first optical axis a magneto-optic light detector device controllably deflecting the beam off the first optical axis in the direction of a target optical beam expander and collimating lenses transmitting the expanded beam toward the target and receiving the expanded and reflected beam from the target the reflected beam then being deflected back along the first optical axis to a scraper mirror which optically turns the reflected beam along a viewing axis toward a photo detector. Patents

Descriptors:

• *PATENTS
• *OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
• *TRANSMITTER RECEIVERS
• *OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
• MAGNETOOPTICS
• LASER BEAMS
• COLLIMATORS
• LENSES
• MIRRORS
• PHOTODETECTORS

Subject Categories:

• Optics
• Non-Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE