Optical waveguides – Optical fiber bundle – Fiber bundle plate
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-06
2010-12-21
Doan, Jennifer (Department: 2874)
Optical waveguides
Optical fiber bundle
Fiber bundle plate
C385S115000, C385S123000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07856161
ABSTRACT:
An imaging module includes an optical fiber faceplate with an image-input face, a planar image-output face, and a plurality of adjacently fused, internally reflecting imaging conduits extending between the image-input and image-output faces. The constituent imaging conduits extend along conduit axes that mutually converge in a direction that such that an image inputted through the image-input face is reduced in size along at least one dimension for outputting through the image-output face. The imaging module further includes an imaging detector array including a plurality of photosensitive detector elements arranged in accordance with a predetermined array format. The faceplate is situated in front of the detector array such that light incident upon the image-input face is transmitted through the faceplate and optically communicated to the detector elements through the image-output face. Multiple imaging modules can be tiled in tight formations in order to form a larger format imaging array.
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Doan Jennifer
Franco Louis J.
Law Office of Louis J. Franco
Schott Corporation
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