Abstract:
A method and apparatus for transmitting light, wherein a holographic video screen is used as part of an illuminating system. The tendency of such a video screen to backscatter light of certain wavelengths from a predefined direction into a certain solid angle area is utilized to generate holographic images at precisely defined angles. In ambient light, such a video screen need not appear black, or at least dark.
Abstract:
Integrated microsystem comprising electrical and nonelectrical, particularly optical functions in a laser system, wherein a base comprising anisotropically etchable semiconducting material on which etching structures for receiving optical and/or electro-optical and electrical/electronic and/or fluidic and/or mechanical elements or their mountings are arranged in predetermined distances and/or levels, as well as integrated switching circuits, and that at least a part of the optical, electro-optical or mechanical elements or their mounting is controllable and movable electrically in such a way that its position relative to the base is actively changeable, and that at least one sensor is provided which determines the effect of the position change on the function of at least a part of a microsystem and supplies a signal for repeated readjustment (self-adjusting) of optical elements and their mounting.
Abstract:
A detector device for detecting and indicating the origin of laser radiation is disclosed. The detector has a plurality of discrete optics, with the discrete optics being arranged in azimuth planes. Each discrete optics monitors a preset solid angle with significant overlap between the angles. Each discrete optics has a first and second wave guide. The first wave guides are coupled to a first opto-electric transducer and the second wave guide is coupled to a second opto-electric transducer. The transducers are respectively coupled to a first and a second detector stage. All first wave guides leading to the first detector stage are of equal length while the second wave guides are of incrementally increasing length in the direction of increasing azimuth angle. The incrementally increasing length causes increasing travel time for light pulses over the wave guides. A transit time measuring device is coupled to the first and second detector stage and determines the beginning and end of the transit time measurement and, as a function of its, the solid angle of the incident laser radiation. Additionally, the opto-electric transducers of the first and second detector stages are coupled with a resonant circuit which acts as a filter stage. The resonant period of the resonant circuit is at least four times larger than the duration of the build-up time of the arriving laser pulse. The damped resonant circuits of the first and second detector stages are respectively coupled to passage-through-the-zero-axis detectors. The first time the incoming signal triggers one of the zero-axis detectors a starting signal is sent to the transit time measuring circuit and the next time one of the zero-axis detectors is triggered a stopping signal is sent to the measuring circuit.
Abstract:
In order to be able to determine in a simple manner the angular deviationsetween the optical axes (OT, OS) of a telescope lens (2) and of a star tracker lens (8) which arise during the course of operation of a space telescope due to external influences, the entry (7a) of an orderly arranged light conductor bundle (7) is arranged in the focal plane (f.sub.t) of the space telescope lens (2) and the exit (7b) of the light conductor bundle (7) is lead into the focal plane (f.sub.k) of a collimator (9) arranged in the object-side opening of the star tracker lens (8). The angular deviation is determined by comparing the coordinates (y.sub.o, z.sub.o, y'.sub.o, z'.sub.o) of the images (S, S') of a reference star arising in the space telescope and in the star tracker. The collimator (9) may be mounted at the edge of the star tracker opening and a prism system (10, 11) may be provided for reflecting or imaging its beam path into the beam path of the star tracker.
Abstract:
A device for detecting the presence and direction of a pulsating or intensity-modulated laser radiation, in which the direction of radiation is exactly determined measures time intervals. A system with two detector elements is provided, with the first element producing a starting signal immediately when the laser radiation is incident, and the second element producing a stop signal which is delayed in time relative thereto. The second detector element is connected to a plurality of unequally long optical delay lines, each coupled to an optical collecting aperture having a specific orientation and a limited field of sight, with the individual fields of sight overlapping one another.