G02B 17/061
On-axis systems with at least one of the mirrors having a central
Official title: {on-axis systems with at least one of the mirrors having a central aperture}
G02B17/061 (On-axis systems with at least one of the mirrors having a central) appears on 157 US grants and 123 published applications in this corpus.
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