Patent ID: 8936404
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus, comprising: a directed energy processing component having associated with it a preferred alignment to one or both of received energy and provided energy; at least one polymer actuator, positioned proximate the directed energy processing component to provide thereto a force adapted to enable the preferred alignment; a detector, for detecting a qualitative parameter associated with the provided energy; and a processor, for adjusting the actuator in a manner tending to improve the detected qualitative parameter; wherein the directed energy processing component comprises a prism having a substantially transparent low modulus material disposed between two substantially transparent plates, at least one plate being positioned into a non-coplanar relationship with the other plate in response to urging by the at least one polymer actuator such that a beam passing through the plates changes direction due to refraction from surfaces not normal to the beam propagation direction; wherein, when the two plates are positioned into a non-coplanar relationship with respect to each other, the transparent low modulus material adapts to space available between the two plates such that a beam passing through the prism only passes through the plates and the transparent low modulus material.