G01D 5/36
Forming the light into pulses
G01D5/36 (Forming the light into pulses) appears on 1,012 US grants and 539 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2026 | 7 | 11 |
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- Digital wavelength division multiplex optical transducer having an improved decoder107US 5,281,811 ALitton Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Optical detection apparatus for detecting information relating to relative displacement of an object on whch a diffraction grating is formed107US 5,666,196 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Scanning signal balancing circuit106US 4,628,201 ADr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH · 1986