G02B 27/126
The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based
Official title: {The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based on total internal reflection}
G02B27/126 (The splitting element being a prism or prismatic array, including systems based) appears on 529 US grants and 548 published applications in this corpus.
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