Method and apparatus for generating a structured light beam array
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1. A method of simultaneouslu generating a space volume-filling structured light beam array for projection upon an object in non-contact surface metrology, comprising the steps of:
- (a) generating a coherent light beam;
(b) projecting said beam with slight divergence through a predetermined plane;
(c) partitioning said beam received at said plane into four light beam segments of predetermined spacing and pattern;
(d) generating from said beam segment pattern, a two-dimensional array comprising an interference pattern of said beam segments; and
(e) projecting said array in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the array onto said object.
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Abstract
Apparatus for simultaneously generating a space volume-filling structural light beam array utilizes a prism assembly which refracts a laser light beam so as to partition it into four separate segments. The four segments produced the two-by-two rectangular beam array by coherent interference of the segments.
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1. A method of simultaneouslu generating a space volume-filling structured light beam array for projection upon an object in non-contact surface metrology, comprising the steps of:
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(a) generating a coherent light beam; (b) projecting said beam with slight divergence through a predetermined plane; (c) partitioning said beam received at said plane into four light beam segments of predetermined spacing and pattern; (d) generating from said beam segment pattern, a two-dimensional array comprising an interference pattern of said beam segments; and (e) projecting said array in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the array onto said object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. Apparatus for generating a space volume-filling structured light beam array for projection upon an object in non-contact surface metrology comprising:
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(a) means for generating a coherent light beam; (b) means for projecting said beam with slight divergence through a predetermined plane; (c) means for partitioning said beam received at said plane into four light beam segments of predetermined spacing and pattern; (d) means for generating from said beam segment pattern, a two dimensional array comprising an interference pattern of said beam segments; and (e) means for projecting said array onto said object. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of simultaneously generating multiple space volume-filling structured light beam arrays of predetermined wavelengths in any combination, comprising the steps of:
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(a) generating coherent light beams of said predetermined wavelengths, including four different wavelengths of light generated as four beams from four sources; (b) projecting said beams with slight divergence through a predetermined plane; (c) partitioning each beam received at said plane into four light beam segments of predetermined spacings and patterns; (d) generating from said beam segment patterns two-dimensional arrays comprising interference patterns of said beam segments; and (e) projecting said arrays onto an object in which the derived arrays from each wavelength overlap on the object. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. Apparatus for simultaneously generating multiple space volume-filling light beam arrays of predetermined wavelengths in any combination, comprising;
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(a) means for generating coherent light beams of said predetermined wavelengths, including four different wavelengths of light generated as four beams from four sources; (b) means for projecting said beams with slight divergence through a predetermined plane; (c) means for partitioning each beam received at said plane into four light beam segments of predetermined spacings and patterns; (d) means for generating from said beam segment patterns two dimensional arrays comprising interference patterns of said beam segments; and (e) means for projecting said arrays onto an object in which the derived arrays from each wavelength overlap on the object. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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