A coating removal apparatus utilizing a common optics path to provide laser pulses to a coated surface and to direct a light illumination reflected from the coated surface to a photosensitive detector and analyzer. The apparatus is an integrated device including a laser source, a beam splitter, scan
A coating removal apparatus utilizing a common optics path to provide laser pulses to a coated surface and to direct a light illumination reflected from the coated surface to a photosensitive detector and analyzer. The apparatus is an integrated device including a laser source, a beam splitter, scanning optics, a waste removal apparatus, one or more light illuminators, a photosensitive detector, a comparator, and a control logic circuit. Alternatively, the laser source is external to the integrated device and a fiber optic cable is used to connect the laser source to the integrated device.
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What is claimed is: 1. A laser-based coating removal system to remove a coating from a surface, the system comprising: a. a laser source to provide a laser pulse; b. scanning optics to direct the laser pulse along a laser path to a current one of a plurality of positions within a coating removal pa
What is claimed is: 1. A laser-based coating removal system to remove a coating from a surface, the system comprising: a. a laser source to provide a laser pulse; b. scanning optics to direct the laser pulse along a laser path to a current one of a plurality of positions within a coating removal pattern on the surface, whereby the laser pulse impinges the current position on the surface thereby ablating a portion of the coating from the current position; c. one or more light illuminators to provide a light illumination along a light illumination path, the light illumination impinging the current position on the surface; d. a photosensitive detector to receive light reflected from the surface as a result of the impinging light illumination and to measure the reflected light; and e. a color sensing path to direct the reflected light from the surface to the photosensitive detector, wherein the color sensing path includes the scanning optics and the entire color sensing path from the surface to the photosensitive detector is independent of the entire light illumination path from the one or more light illuminators to the surface. 2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a control logic circuit coupled to the laser source, the scanning optics, and to the photosensitive detector, wherein the control logic circuit provides control signals to the laser source and the scanning optics. 3. The system of claim 2 further comprising a comparator coupled to the photosensitive detector to compare the measured reflected light with predetermined parameters to determine if the coating is removed from the current position on the surface. 4. The system of claim 3 wherein the control logic circuit provides a first control signal to the scanning optics to direct the laser pulse to the current position on the surface if it is determined that the coating is not removed from the current position. 5. The system of claim 4 wherein the current position and each successive position on the surface is determined according to the coating removal pattern. 6. The system of claim 5 wherein if it is determined that the coating is not removed from the current position, or each successive position, then the control logic circuit maintains a record list of each position at which the coating is not removed such that an additional laser pulse is directed to each position listed in the record list. 7. The system of claim 1 wherein the scanning optics include one or more reflecting scanners. 8. The system of claim 7 wherein the one or more reflecting scanners comprise a lens and mirror array. 9. The system of claim 1 wherein the scanning optics include one or more refracting scanners. 10. The system of claim 9 wherein the one or more refracting scanners comprise a lens and prism array. 11. The system of claim 1 wherein the scanning optics include focusing optics. 12. The system of claim 1 further comprising a beam splitter to direct the reflected light away from the laser path and toward the photosensitive detector. 13. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more light illuminators provide the light illumination directly to the surface. 14. The system of claim 1 further comprising an optical fiber coupled between the laser source and the scanning optics to provide the laser pulse from the laser source to the scanning optics. 15. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more light illuminators comprises a single wide spectrum illuminator. 16. The system of claim 15 wherein the photosensitive detector comprises a single sensor to measure a relative lightness of the surface. 17. The system of claim 15 wherein the photosensitive detector comprises a spectrophotometer sensor to measure the reflectance at a plurality of different wavelengths. 18. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more light illuminators comprises a red spectrum illuminator to provide a red light illumination and a blue spectrum illuminator to provide a blue light illumination. 19. The system of claim 18 wherein the photosensitive detector temporally separates a reflected red light resulting from the impinging red spectrum illumination and a reflected blue light resulting from the impinging blue spectrum illumination. 20. The system of claim 1 further comprising a waste collection mechanism to collect an ablated portion of the surface. 21. An integrated device to remove a coating from a surface, the integrated device comprising: a. a laser source to provide a laser pulse; b. scanning optics to direct the laser pulse along a laser path to a current one of a plurality of positions within a coating removal pattern on the surface, whereby the laser pulse impinges the current position on the surface thereby ablating a portion of the coating from the current position; c. one or more light illuminators to provide a light illumination along a light illumination path, the light illumination impinging the current position on the surface; d. a photosensitive detector to receive light reflected from the surface as a result of the impinging light illumination and to measure the reflected light; and e. a color sensing path to direct the reflected light from the surface to the photosensitive detector, wherein the color sensing path includes the scanning optics and the entire color sensing path from the surface to the photosensitive detector is independent of the entire light illumination path from the one or more light illuminators to the surface. 22. The integrated device of claim 21 further comprising a waste collection mechanism to collect the ablated portion of the surface. 23. The integrated device of claim 21 further comprising a control logic circuit coupled to the laser source, the scanning optics, and to the photosensitive detector, wherein the control logic circuit provides control signals to the laser source and the scanning optics. 24. The integrated device of claim 21 wherein the scanning optics include one or more reflecting scanners. 25. The integrated device of claim 21 wherein the scanning optics include one or more refracting scanners. 26. The integrated device of claim 21 further comprising a beam splitter to direct the reflected light away from the laser path and toward the photosensitive detector. 27. A laser-based coating removal system to remove a coating from a surface, the system comprising: a. a laser source to provide a laser pulse; b. scanning optics to direct the laser pulse along a laser path to a current one of a plurality of positions within a coating removal pattern on the surface, whereby the laser pulse impinges the current position on the surface thereby ablating a portion of the coating from the current position; c. one or more light illuminators to provide a light illumination along a light illumination path, the light illumination impinging the current position on the surface; d. a photosensitive detector to receive light reflected from the surface as a result of the impinging light illumination and to measure the reflected light from the current position; and e. a color sensing path to direct the reflected light from the surface to the photosensitive detector, wherein the color sensing path includes the scanning optics such that color is sensed at the current position, and further wherein the entire color sensing path from the surface to the photosensitive detector is independent of the entire light illumination path from the one or more light illuminators to the surface. 28. An integrated device to remove a coating from a surface, the integrated device comprising: a. a laser source to provide a laser pulse; b. scanning optics to direct the laser pulse along a laser path to a current one of a plurality of positions within a coating removal pattern on the surface, whereby the laser pulse impinges the current position on the surface thereby ablating a portion of the coating from the current position; c. one or more light illuminators to provide a light illumination along a light illumination path, the light illumination impinging the current position on the surface; d. a photosensitive detector to receive light reflected from the surface as a result of the impinging light illumination and to measure the reflected light from the current position; and e. a color sensing path to direct the reflected light from the surface to the photosensitive detector, wherein the color sensing path includes the scanning optics, such that color is sensed at the current position, and further wherein the entire color sensing path from the surface to the photosensitive detector is independent of the entire light illumination path from the one or more light illuminators to the surface.
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