G02B 27/108
For sampling a portion of a beam or combining a small beam
Official title: {for sampling a portion of a beam or combining a small beam in a larger one, e.g. wherein the area ratio or power ratio of the divided beams significantly differs from unity, without spectral selectivity}
G02B27/108 (For sampling a portion of a beam or combining a small beam) appears on 328 US grants and 314 published applications in this corpus.
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