G02B 27/106
For splitting or combining a plurality of identical beams or images
Official title: {for splitting or combining a plurality of identical beams or images, e.g. image replication}
G02B27/106 (For splitting or combining a plurality of identical beams or images) appears on 608 US grants and 629 published applications in this corpus.
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- Collimating optical device and system149US 8,643,948 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2014
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- Projectors of structured light113US 8,749,796 B2Primesense Ltd. · 2014
- Portable laser device for alignment tasks107US 5,144,487 APacific Laser · 1992
- Method and apparatus for generating a structured light beam array79US 4,523,809 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 1985