Optical waveguides – With optical coupler – Input/output coupler
Patent
1990-08-15
1991-10-22
Ullah, Akm
Optical waveguides
With optical coupler
Input/output coupler
385 15, 385115, G02B 626
Patent
active
RE0337226
ABSTRACT:
An optical system producing bright light output for optical pumping, communications, illumination and the like in which one or more fiberoptic waveguides receive light from one or more diode lasers or diode laser bars and transmit the light to an output end where it is focused or collimated into a bright light image. The input end of the fiberoptic waveguide may be squashed into an elongated cross section so as to guide light emitted from an elongated light source such as a diode laser bar. The waveguides are preferably arranged at the output end into a tightly packed bundle where a lens or other optical means focuses or collimates the light. For diode laser bars much wider than 100 microns, a plurality of waveguides may be arranged in a line to receive the light, and then stacked at the output in a less elongated configuration. In this manner, light from many diode lasers or laser bars may be coupled through the bundle into the end of solid state laser medium.
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Scifres Donald R.
Worland D. Philip
Spectra Diode Laboratories, Inc.
Ullah Akm
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