Patents by Inventor Melvin M. Weiner

Melvin M. Weiner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Unstable optical resonator with off-axis noncentered obscuration
    Patent number: 4079340
    Abstract: Herein described is an unstable resonator optical cavity for lasers which may have a square, rectangular or the like spherical concave primary reflection surface at one end of the cavity that intercepts the optical axis of the cavity at or adjacent to one of its corners and a more or less similar square, rectangular or the like spherical convex feedback reflection surface at the opposite end of the optical cavity that intercepts the optical axis at or adjacent to one of its corners arranged and adapted to define an unstable resonator cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Avco Everett Research Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin M. Weiner, George W. Sutton