Patent ID: 8982458
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A beam director, comprising: a beam director elevation motor that rotates the beam director about an elevation axis; a beam director azimuth motor that rotates the beam director about an azimuth axis, the azimuth axis intersecting and being substantially perpendicular to the elevation axis; an optical sensor suite disposed a non-zero distance off of the azimuth axis; an optical telescope barrel disposed a non-zero distance off of the azimuth axis and having a substantially cylindrical body including a longitudinal axis and defining an optical telescope, the optical telescope positioned proximate to and operationally coupled to the optical sensor suite and the longitudinal axis corresponding with an outgoing laser beam; an entering pass-through aperture disposed on the elevation axis and an exiting pass-through aperture disposed on the elevation axis, each aperture located on the cylindrical body of the optical telescope barrel defining an optical path between the entering pass-through aperture and the exiting pass-through aperture substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the optical telescope barrel such that, an incoming laser beam along the optical path enters laterally through the entering pass-through aperture and exits laterally through the exiting pass-through aperture; and an optical module disposed a non-zero distance off of the azimuth axis comprising a first mirror disposed on the elevation axis and a second mirror disposed a non-zero distance off of the elevation axis, configured to direct the incoming laser beam exiting the optical telescope barrel to the optical suite.