Rotating shutter for laser-produced plasma debris mitigation
    1.
    发明授权
    Rotating shutter for laser-produced plasma debris mitigation 有权
    用于激光产生的等离子体碎片减轻的旋转挡板

    公开(公告)号:US07302043B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-27

    申请号:US11161237

    申请日:2005-07-27

    IPC分类号: G21K1/00

    CPC分类号: G03F7/70916

    摘要: A laser produced plasma device comprises a shutter assembly for mitigating the contaminating effects of debris generated by the plasma. In one embodiment, the shutter assembly includes a rotatable shutter having at least one aperture that provides a line-of-sight between a radiation source and an exit of the device during a first period of rotation of the shutter, and obstructs the line-of-sight between the radiation source and the exit during a second period of rotation. The shutter assembly in this embodiment also includes a motor configured to rotate the shutter to permit passage of the X-rays through the at least one aperture during the first period of rotation, and to thereafter rotate the shutter to obstruct passage of the debris through the at least one aperture during the second period of rotation.

    摘要翻译: 激光产生的等离子体装置包括用于减轻由等离子体产生的碎片的污染影响的快门组件。 在一个实施例中,快门组件包括具有至少一个孔的可旋转快门,所述孔在快门的旋转的第一周期期间在辐射源和装置的出口之间提供视线,并且阻挡线 在第二旋转周期期间在辐射源和出口之间。 在该实施例中的快门组件还包括马达,其被配置为旋转快门以允许X射线在旋转的第一周期期间通过至少一个孔,并且此后旋转快门以阻止碎片通过 在第二旋转周期期间的至少一个孔。

    Radiation-resistant zone plates and method of manufacturing thereof
    2.
    发明授权
    Radiation-resistant zone plates and method of manufacturing thereof 有权
    耐辐射区板及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US07452820B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-11-18

    申请号:US11161510

    申请日:2005-08-05

    IPC分类号: H01L21/311

    CPC分类号: G02B5/1876 G02B5/1857

    摘要: Disclosed are radiation-resistant zone plates for use in laser-produced plasma (LPP) devices, and methods of manufacturing such zone plates. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing a zone plate provides for forming a masking layer over a supporting membrane, and creating openings through the masking layer in a diffractive grating pattern. Such a method also provides depositing radiation absorbent material in the openings in the masking layer and on the supporting membrane, and then stripping the remaining portions of the masking layer. Then, portions of the supporting membrane not covered by the absorbent material are removed, wherein the remaining portions of the supporting membrane covered by the absorbent material form separate grates. Also in such methods, cross-members are coupled to the grates for holding positions of the grates with respect to each other.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于激光产生等离子体(LPP)装置的耐辐射区域板以及制造这种区域板的方法。 在一个方面,制造区域板的方法提供了在支撑膜上形成掩模层,并以衍射光栅图案产生通过掩模层的开口。 这种方法还在掩模层和支撑膜上的开口中提供沉积辐射吸收材料,然后剥离掩模层的剩余部分。 然后,除去未被吸收材料覆盖的支撑膜的部分,其中被吸收材料覆盖的支撑膜的剩余部分形成分开的格栅。 同样在这种方法中,横向构件联接到格栅以保持格栅相对于彼此的位置。

    Point-to-point laser communication device
    3.
    发明授权
    Point-to-point laser communication device 失效
    点对点激光通信设备

    公开(公告)号:US5754323A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-19

    申请号:US221527

    申请日:1994-04-01

    IPC分类号: H04B10/118 H04B10/00

    CPC分类号: H04B10/118

    摘要: For transmitting information via laser beams to and from other similar laser communication transceivers. Each transceiver comprises a wavelength locked beacon laser providing a beacon beam. The transceivers determine the precise location of other transceivers by detecting these beacon beams with beacon receive units comprising atomic line filters matched to the beacon wavelength. Signals are transmitted by imposing an electronic signal on laser beams produced by one or more signal laser devices. These signals are directed with precision at other transceivers, and the signal beams are detected with very narrow field of view signal receive units. In a preferred embodiment, these transceivers are installed on 66 satellites in low earth orbit and on selected mountain tops on earth to provide a global communication system.

    摘要翻译: 用于通过激光束向其他类似的激光通信收发器发送信息。 每个收发器包括提供信标光束的波长锁定信标激光器。 收发器通过用包括与信标波长匹配的原子线滤波器的信标接收单元来检测这些信标波束来确定其他收发机的精确位置。 通过在由一个或多个信号激光装置产生的激光束上施加电子信号来传输信号。 这些信号在其他收发器处被精确地引导,并且以非常窄的视场信号接收单元检测信号光束。 在优选实施例中,这些收发器安装在低地球轨道上的66颗卫星和地球上选定的山顶上,以提供全球通信系统。

    Systems and methods for a high capture angle, multiple angle light scattering (MALS) instrument
    4.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for a high capture angle, multiple angle light scattering (MALS) instrument 失效
    用于高捕获角度,多角度光散射(MALS)仪器的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07564551B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-07-21

    申请号:US11381346

    申请日:2006-05-02

    IPC分类号: G01N21/00

    摘要: A particle detection system uses a reflective optic comprising a curved surface to detect high angle scattered light generated by a particle in a liquid medium, when a laser beam is incident on the particle. When the particles transit the laser beam, light is scattered in all directions and is described by MIE scattering theory for particles about the size of the wavelength of light and larger or Rayleigh Scattering when the particles are smaller than the wavelength of light. By using the reflective optic, the scattered light can be detected over angles that are greater than normally obtainable.

    摘要翻译: 当激光束入射到粒子上时,粒子检测系统使用包括弯曲表面的反射光学器件来检测由液体介质中的颗粒产生的高角散射光。 当粒子通过激光束时,光在所有方向上散射,并且当颗粒小于光的波长时,通过MIE散射理论对关于光的波长大小或Rayleigh散射的粒子的粒子进行描述。 通过使用反射光学元件,可以在大于通常可获得的角度上检测散射光。

    System and method for improved pointing accuracy
    6.
    发明授权
    System and method for improved pointing accuracy 失效
    提高指点精度的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06504634B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-01-07

    申请号:US09181044

    申请日:1998-10-27

    IPC分类号: H04B1010

    CPC分类号: H04B10/1125

    摘要: A system and method for controlling the power of a transmitter helps to ensure that the transmitted signal is within the dynamic range of the intended receiver. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver. The received signal strength is measured to determine its power level in relation to the dynamic range of the receiver. Where the signal strength is too high, the transmitter is slewed to effectively decrease its pointing accuracy, thereby causing a lower-power portion of the transmitted signal to impinge upon the receiver. Similarly, where the signal strength falls below a desired level, the transmitter is slewed back toward the center-pointing position, effectively increasing its pointing accuracy, and thereby increasing the signal strength received at the receiver.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制发射机的功率的系统和方法有助于确保所发射的信号在预期接收机的动态范围内。 发送的信号由接收机接收。 测量接收信号强度以确定其相对于接收机的动态范围的功率电平。 在信号强度太高的情况下,发射机被转移以有效地降低其指向精度,从而导致发射信号的较低功率部分撞击接收机。 类似地,在信号强度低于期望水平的情况下,发射机被回转到中心指向位置,有效地增加其指向精度,从而增加在接收机处接收到的信号强度。

    METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF) IN A SHORT-WAVELENGTH MICROSCOPE USING WAVEFRONT ENCODING
    8.
    发明申请
    METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF) IN A SHORT-WAVELENGTH MICROSCOPE USING WAVEFRONT ENCODING 审中-公开
    使用WAVEFRONT编码在短波长显微镜中扩展场深度(DOF)的方法,装置和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20080240347A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-02

    申请号:US11459605

    申请日:2006-07-24

    申请人: Scott H. Bloom

    发明人: Scott H. Bloom

    IPC分类号: G21K7/00

    CPC分类号: G21K7/00

    摘要: A lens assembly for enhancing the depth of field of a short-wavelength microscopic system is disclosed. The lens assembly includes an objective zone plate lens, an encoding lens, an imaging detector and a decoding component connected to the imaging detector. The objective zone plate lens is oriented to receive short-wavelength radiation that has passed through a sample in a microscopic system. The encoding lens is oriented to receive the short-wavelength radiation that has passed through the objective zone plate lens and encode the radiation to output an encoded short-wavelength radiation. The imaging detector is oriented to receive the encoded short-wavelength radiation and convert it to a digital signal which is subsequently decoded by the decoding component to decode the encoding applied to the short-wavelength radiation.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于增强短波长微观系统的景深的透镜组件。 透镜组件包括目标区域透镜,编码透镜,成像检测器和连接到成像检测器的解码部件。 目标带状透镜被定向为接收在微观系统中通过样品的短波长辐射。 编码透镜被定向为接收已经通过物镜区域透镜的短波长辐射,并对辐射进行编码以输出经编码的短波长辐射。 成像检测器被定向为接收编码的短波长辐射并将其转换成数字信号,数字信号随后由解码组件解码以对应用于短波长辐射的编码进行解码。

    Laser radar device
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US5267010A

    公开(公告)日:1993-11-30

    申请号:US710356

    申请日:1991-05-31

    摘要: A laser radar system capable of measuring windspeed to within 1 m/s at distances in the range of 10 km. The system comprises two Faraday atomic line filter/detectors combinations, a first filter-detector which consist of a metal vapor cell located between crossed polarizers. A magnetic field is applied to the cell which Zeeman splits the energy levels resulting in different absorption lines for left and right circularly polarized light. Near these lines the filter acts as a Faraday rotator providing rotary power only in the vicinity of an absorption line, which provides the 90 degree rotation necessary to pass the second polarizer. At higher fields and vapor densities multiple rotations lead to rapid modulations in the transmission spectrum. Away from the absorption line the filter provides an out of band rejection that is determined by the extinction ratio of the crossed polarizers. By tuning the temperature and the magnetic field in each Faraday filter sharply crossing response curves can be produced. A preferred lasing frequency range is a frequency range covering a portion of one of the slopes of the peak of the first filter and a portion of one of the opposite direction slopes of one of the peaks of the second filter. Within this range an increase in the frequency of signal light will result in a greater fraction of the light detected by one filter-detector and a smaller fraction detected by the other filter-detector and a decrease in the frequency of the signal light will have the opposite effect. In a preferred embodiment of this invention laser pulses from a laser operating near the midpoint of this preferred frequency range are beamed at a target which could be a windy portion of the atmosphere. Backscattered Doppler shifted light from aerosols and particles in the atmosphere are collected by a telescope and split into two parts, one part being directed to each filter-detector. The intensities of the light detected by the filter-detectors are compared and the relative magnitudes are used to determine the windspeed in the direction of the laser beam. Pulses can be made very short and the travel time of the light is used to determine the range so that a map of windspeed as a function of range is provided in the direction of the laser beam.