Patent Document ID: 8634126
Application ID: 13662928
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An optical control component, comprising: a first component beam divider/combiner disposed along a first component input optical path of an incident optical wavefront; a first component binary MEMS device M 1 1 comprising an (n x,y , x m x,y ) M1 mirror array disposed optically downstream of the first component beam divider/combiner along an M 1 optical path having a total optical path length L 1 1 ; a first component binary MEMS device M 2 1 comprising an (n x,y x m x,y ) M2 minor array disposed optically downstream of the first component beam divider/combiner along an M 2 1 optical path different than the M 1 1 optical path having a total optical path length L 2 1 ; and phase retarder means for making L 1 1 different than L 2 1 , wherein an at least one M 1 1 sub array (XxY) M2 is in an ON/OFF state and a complementary an at least one M 2 1 sub array (XxY) M2 is in an OFF/ON state, further wherein an output wavefront propagating along a first component output optical wavefront path has a controlled modulation.