Electric heating – Microwave heating – Tunnel furnace
Patent
1989-11-17
1991-03-05
Healy, Brian
Electric heating
Microwave heating
Tunnel furnace
350 1610, 350574, 350448, 350469, 21912175, G02B 636, B23K 2606
Patent
active
049972502
ABSTRACT:
A coupler apparatus for supporting an output end of an optical fiber is described. In one embodiment, the coupler apparatus includes a first lens for collimating as a first collimated beam a portion of a high power laser beam emitted from the output end of the fiber. The beam, as it is transmitted through the coupler, is expanded and shaped into a materials processing beam portion which is focused onto a workpiece surface.
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Beulick John S.
Davis Jr. James C.
General Electric Company
Healy Brian
Webb II Paul R.
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