Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With support
Patent
1994-11-01
1997-03-25
Sugarman, Scott J.
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With support
359642, H01S 319
Patent
active
056150520
ABSTRACT:
A laser diode/lens assembly wherein a lens (or multi-lens assembly) is immovably adhered to a housing of a laser diode package. The laser diode package may be a metal can style package having a substantially transparent window portion through which laser radiation is emitted when a laser diode inside the housing is supplied with current. The lens may be immovably fixed to an outer surface of this window so that a central axis of a beam of laser radiation emerging from the lens has a desired spatial relationship with a reference surface of the housing. An adhesive such as an epoxy adhesive which is cured under exposure to ultraviolet radiation may be used to freeze the lens in place to the window when the lens is correctly positioned. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a lens is positioned in three dimensions (X, Y and Z) and then fixed in three dimensional space with respect to a laser diode housing. Fixing the position of the lens in the Z dimension at a desired location allows the focal point of the laser diode/lens assembly to be set so as not to focus laser radiation on a window of a gas spectroscopy device.
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McCaul Bruce W.
Sugarman Scott J.
Wallace T. Lester
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